Case Title: McGowan v. Family Medicine, Inc.

Citation: 2003-Ohio-5271

Docket Number: 20021620

State: ohio

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

Date: 2003-10-22T00:00:00Z

Document:
[Cite as McGowan v. Family Medicine, Inc., 100 Ohio St.3d 1204, 2003-Ohio-5271.] 
 
 
MCGOWAN, ADMR., APPELLANT, v. FAMILY MEDICINE, INC. ET AL., 
APPELLEES. 
[Cite as McGowan v. Family Medicine, Inc., 100 Ohio St.3d 1204, 2003-Ohio-
5271.] 
Appeal dismissed as improvidently allowed. 
(No. 2002-1620 — Submitted September 16, 2003 — Decided October 22, 2003.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Stark County, No. 2001CA00385, 2002-
Ohio-4071. 
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The cause is dismissed, sua sponte, as having been improvidently 
allowed. 
 
MOYER, C.J., BOWMAN, F.E. SWEENEY, LUNDBERG STRATTON, O’CONNOR 
and O’DONNELL, JJ., concur. 
 
PFEIFER, J., dissents and would reverse on the wrongful-death claim. 
 
DONNA BOWMAN, J., of the Tenth Appellate District, sitting for RESNICK, 
J. 
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Zavarello & Davis Co., L.P.A., A. William Zavarello and Rhonda Gail 
Davis, for appellant. 
 
Hanna, Campbell & Powell, L.L.P., Michael Ockerman and John R. 
Chlysta, for appellees Family Medicine, Inc. and Steven D. Smith, M.D. 
 
Roetzel & Andress, Thomas A. Treadon and Stacy A. Ragon, for 
appellees Gastroenterology Associates, Inc. and Gerald Smith, M.D. 
 
Gibbons & Cullen, L.L.P., and John L. Cullen, for appellees Nashat Y. 
Gabrail, M.D., and Nashat Y. Gabrail, M.D., Inc. 
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Howes, Daane, Milligan & Erwin, L.L.P., Philip E. Howes, Richard S. 
Milligan and Thomas R. Himmelspach, for appellee Hartville Family Practice. 
 
Michael T. Callahan, urging reversal for amicus curiae Ohio Academy of 
Trial Lawyers. 
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