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Ohio Supreme Court Overturns Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Because Its Expert Wasn’t Qualified

October 18, 2021

In its slip opinion dated September 22, 2021, the Ohio Supreme Court overturned a defense verdict in a medical malpractice case because the defense medical expert was not qualified to provide testimony in the case. The Ohio Supreme Court held: “a physician employed in an executive position who[...]

Ohio’s University Hospitals Transplanted Kidney Into Wrong Patient

August 6, 2021

Ohio’s University Hospitals has acknowledged that a kidney intended for one patient was wrongly implanted into another patient, leaving the intended recipient waiting for a kidney transplant and remaining one of almost 1,100 other people in Northeast Ohio who are waiting for kidney transplants[...]

Ohio Appellate Court Rejects Cleveland Clinic’s Peer Review Privilege And Trade Secrets Arguments

May 18, 2021

In its Journal Entry And Opinion dated April 28, 2021, the Court of Appeals of Ohio Eighth Appellate District (“Ohio Appellate Court”) held “that the peer-review privilege does not apply to the requested documents and that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in finding the[...]

Ohio Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict

April 15, 2021

On April 1, 2021, the Court of Appeals of Ohio Eighth Appellate District (“Ohio Appellate Court”) affirmed an Ohio medical malpractice verdict in favor of the defendants, stating: “Following a complete and careful review of the record, we cannot say that, in resolving conflicts in [...]

Ohio Appellate Court Rules Negligent Credentialing Claims Filed Too Late

March 31, 2021

The Ohio First District Court of Appeals (“Ohio Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on March 12, 2021 that the five consolidated appeals in the several hundred cases involving alleged medical malpractice by defendant Abubakar Atiq Durrani, M.D. (“Durrani”) were barred[...]

Ohio Governor Reports 60% Of Nursing Home Workers Have Refused COVID-19 Vaccine

January 3, 2021

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine reported on December 30, 2020 that 60% of Ohio’s nursing home workers have refused the COVID-19 vaccine. Governor DeWine stated during the December 30, 2020 press conference, “Our bigger concern is the amount of staff who are not taking it. I don’t have data i[...]

Ohio Supreme Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Case Filed Too Late

October 11, 2020

The Supreme Court of Ohio (“Ohio Supreme Court”) affirmed in its opinion filed on August 20, 2020 that an Ohio medical malpractice case was filed too late and that the defendants were properly granted summary judgment by the lower court, stating: “This case requires us to examine t[...]

Ohio Appellate Court Affirms Defense Verdict In Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Malpractice Case

March 4, 2019

The Ohio Court of Appeals Ninth Judicial District (“Ohio Appellate Court”) in its Decision and Journal Entry dated February 20, 2019 upheld the defense verdict reached by a Ohio medical malpractice jury, concluding “that the jury’s verdict was not against the manifest weight of t[...]

Ohio ICU Doc Allegedly Intentionally Overdosed At Least 34 Patients

January 26, 2019

Ohio’s Mount Carmel Health System (“Mount Carmel”) issued the following shocking statement: “Mount Carmel recently reported to authorities the findings of an internal investigation that determined a Mount Carmel doctor who provided intensive care ordered significantly excessi[...]

$100K Ohio Medical Malpractice Verdict For Surgical Sponge Left In Patient

April 29, 2018

An Ohio medical malpractice jury awarded $100,000 in an Ohio medical malpractice wrongful death case against a surgeon who admittedly left a surgical sponge in a patient after performing surgery. The patient died fifteen months after the surgery and her family claimed in its Ohio medical malpractice[...]

Ohio Appellate Court Refuses To Enforce Arbitration In Medical Malpractice Case

March 11, 2018

The Court of Appeals of Ohio Third Appellate District Allen County (“Ohio Appellate Court”), in its decision filed on February 20, 2018, held that the defendant hospital in an Ohio medical malpractice case had waived its right to arbitrate the plaintiff’s medical malpractice claims[...]

Ohio Appellate Court Applies Statute Of Repose To Dismiss Eight Medical Claims Against Former Spine Surgeon

January 10, 2018

The Ohio First District Court of Appeals (“Ohio Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on December 27, 2017 in eight consolidated cases on appeal that the Ohio statute of repose for medical claims was not unconstitutional and that the plaintiffs’ claims against a former spine [...]

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