“While Walls’s role was vital and essential to the hospital, he was not engaged in the active practice of medicine or in a role adjunctive to patient care.”

Justice Fischer, opinion of the Court

On September 22, 2021, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in Johnson v. Abdullah, Slip Opinion No.

Update: On September 22, 2021, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

“If you asked an average speaker of the English language none of them would say to you that this doctor was engaged in the active clinical practice of medicine, would they?”

Justice DeWine

Update: On September 22, 2021, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

Read an analysis of the oral argument here.

On March 30, 2021, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in Mark Johnson, Individually and as Guardian of David Johnson,  an incompetent,

Update: On May 22, 2017, the Supreme Court of Ohio dismissed this case as improvidently accepted.  Read more about that here.

“I’m asking you for a theory, why is UC Physicians, the employer of all the doctors in anesthesiology there, why are they not liable?”

Justice O’Neill, to defense counsel.

On May 3, 2017, the

Update: On May 22, 2017, the Supreme Court of Ohio dismissed this case as improvidently accepted.  Read more about that here.

Read the analysis of the oral argument here.

On May 3, 2017, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case, Anthony Rush and Tammy Rush v. University of Cincinnati Physicians

“Therefore, this court and the United States Supreme Court agree that statutes of repose are to be read as enacted and not with an intent to circumvent legislatively imposed time limits.”

Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor

“This case moves us one step closer to the time when the common law will be completely obliterated in Ohio.”

Update: On October 25, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.

On April 5, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard oral argument in the case of David Antoon et al. v. Cleveland Clinic Foundation et al., 2015-0467. At issue in the case

Update: On October 25, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analysis here.

Read the analysis of the oral argument here.

On April 5, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of David Antoon et al. v. Cleveland Clinic Foundation