An Ohio woman must pursue a new negligence trial after a state appeals court found that she improperly introduced into evidence a video collage of various deposition answers provided by the defendant doctor.
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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.