Title: Farwick v. Sisters of Mercy of Clermont Cty., Ohio, Inc.

State: ohio

Issuer: Ohio Supreme Court

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Farwick, Admr., Appellant, v. Sisters of Mercy of Clermont                       
County, Ohio, Inc., d.b.a. Clermont Mercy Hospitals, et al.,                     
Appellees.                                                                       
[Cite as Farwick v. Sisters of Mercy of Clermont Cty., Ohio,                     
Inc. (1994),     Ohio St.3d    .]                                                
Hospitals -- Physicians and surgeons -- Malpractice -- Hospital                  
     may be held liable under doctrine of agency by estoppel                     
     for the negligence of independent medical practitioners                     
     practicing in the hospital, when.                                           
     (No. 93-1465 -- Submitted January 25, 1994 -- Decided                       
March 16, 1994.)                                                                 
     Appeal from the Court of Appeals for Clermont County, No.                   
CA92-08-085.                                                                     
                                                                                 
     John Woliver and Marlene Penny Manes, for appellant.                        
     Kohnen & Patton and Anthony J. Caruso, for appellee                         
Clermont Mercy Hospitals.                                                        
     Jacobson, Maynard, Tuschman & Kalur Co., L.P.A., Gayle E.                   
Arnold and Karen L. Clouse, for appellees Steward Friedman and                   
Associated OB-GYN Physicians, Inc.                                               
                                                                                 
     The cause is reversed and remanded to the trial court on                    
Proposition of Law No. 1 on authority of Clark v. Southview                      
Hosp. & Family Health Ctr. (1994),      Ohio St.3d     ,     ,                   
N.E.2d     , decided today.  The appeal is dismissed, sua                        
sponte, on Propositions of Law Nos. 2 and 3, as having been                      
improvidently allowed.                                                           
     A.W. Sweeney, Douglas, Resnick, F.E. Sweeney and Pfeifer,                   
JJ., concur.                                                                     
     Moyer, C.J., and Wright, J., dissent.