Opinion
No. 90-2108
Submitted November 20, 1991 —
Decided December 24, 1991.
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Allen County, No. 1-88-47.
Wolske Blue, Michael S. Miller and Gerald S. Leesberg, for appellees.
Oxley, Malone, Fitzgerald Hollister, Michael J. Malone and Julie A. Davenport, for appellant Lima Memorial Hospital.
Gooding, Huffman, Kelley Becker, Lawrence S. Huffman and Matthew C. Huffman, for appellant James L. Kahn, M.D.
Steven J. Hupp; Jacobson, Maynard, Tuschman Kalur, James M. Tuschman and Nancy D. Moody, for appellant Panathur S.G. Reddy, M.D.
Maloon, Maloon Barclay Co., L.P.A., and Jeffrey L. Maloon, urging affirmance for amicus curiae, Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers.
Bricker Eckler, James J. Hughes, Jr., Richard S. Lovering and Bernadette J. Bollas, urging reversal for amicus curiae, Ohio Hospital Association.
The cause is affirmed on authority of Muze v. Mayfield (1991), 61 Ohio St.3d 173, 573 N.E.2d 1078, and Benda v. Fana (1967), 10 Ohio St.2d 259, 39 O.O.2d 410, 227 N.E.2d 197, paragraph one of the syllabus.
MOYER, C.J., SWEENEY, STRAUSBAUGH, DOUGLAS, WRIGHT, H. BROWN and RESNICK, JJ., concur.
DEAN STRAUSBAUGH, J., of the Tenth Appellate District, sitting for HOLMES, J.