{"id":2390,"date":"2024-08-23T20:58:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T20:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ohio-high-court-majority-declines-to-expand-civil-service-defense-rules\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T20:58:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T20:58:55","slug":"ohio-high-court-majority-declines-to-expand-civil-service-defense-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ohio-high-court-majority-declines-to-expand-civil-service-defense-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio High Court Majority Declines to Expand Civil Service Defense Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/images.law.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/documents\/292\/189754\/2024-Ohio-3159.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ohio Supreme Court<\/a>\u00a0has agreed that\u00a0a medical malpractice lawsuit should be dismissed for failure to properly serve the complaint, despite the case having already been litigated for two years.<\/p>\n<p>In an opinion issued Thursday in <em>Ackman v. Mercy Health West Hospital<\/em>, a majority of the court agreed to dismiss the medical malpractice and wrongful death suit against Dr. Muhammad Riaz Ahmad, a doctor employed by Mercy Hospital West in Cincinnati, finding that the physician had not been served with the complaint as required by the Ohio Rules of Civil Procedure. The administrator of a deceased woman\u2019s estate, Jennifer Ackman, filed the lawsuit in February 2020, claiming\u00a0Ahmad and the hospital failed to properly diagnose and treat Janet Sollman for a stroke,\u00a0which led to her death in September 2019.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Ohio Supreme Court\u00a0has agreed that\u00a0a medical malpractice lawsuit should be dismissed for failure to properly serve the complaint, despite the case having already been litigated for two years. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2137,143,774,2299,1495,327,3156,679,351,2801],"class_list":["post-2390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-civil","tag-court","tag-declines","tag-defense","tag-expand","tag-high","tag-majority","tag-ohio","tag-rules","tag-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}