In its Journal Entry And Opinion dated April 28, 2021, the Court of Appeals of Ohio Eighth Appellate District (“Ohio Appellate Court”) held “that the peer-review privilege does not apply to the requested documents and that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in finding the documents did not contain trade secrets. The plaintiff, Eloise Hance, alleged that neurosurgeon employed by the Cleveland Clinic operated on her back based on medical misdiganosis, resulting in severe and persistent pain, decreased life expectancy, and left her permanently paralyzed from the waist down. The trial court ordered the Cleveland Clinic to produce those documents, “as redacted,” within ten days of the order. E) defines “[p]eer review committee” as follows: ““Peer review committee”
Ohio Appellate Court Rejects Cleveland Clinic’s Peer Review Privilege And Trade Secrets Arguments – Medical Malpractice Lawyers
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