Around the time of Dr. Abubakar Atiq Durrani's arrest and subsequent flight to Pakistan, hundreds of criminal and civil lawsuits flooded into the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Legal Newsline) - An Ohio law barring medical-malpractice lawsuits more than four years after an injury doesn’t apply to cases against a surgeon who fled the country and is now living in Pakistan, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled.
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CINCINNATI (Legal Newsline) - An Ohio lawsuit alleging malpractice over back surgeries performed in 2011 can proceed after an appeals court reversed a lower court’s ruling that the action was filed outside the state’s four-year statute of repose for medical malpractice actions.
The First Appellate District of Ohio ruled on Dec. 9 that Ohio’s savings statute preserved the case for Rachel Jones, who had the surgeries, and her husband Jeff Jones against Dr. Abubakar Atiq Durrani, the Center for Advanced Spine Technologies, Inc (CAST) and Riverside Health Institute (RHI).
In the case, Rachel Jones contends that her back pain only worsened after two surgeries, one in January 2011 and another in August. Dr. Durrani performed both surgeries; the first at West Chester Hospital, which was dropped from the suit, and the second at RHI.