2003-Ohio-5271, 797 N.E.2d 88
No. 2002-1620.Supreme Court of Ohio.Submitted September 16, 2003.
Decided October 22, 2003.
Appeal from the Court of Appeals for Stark County, No. 2001CA00385, 2002-Ohio-4071.
{¶ 1} 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.
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.
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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