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Sequelae Of Recent Hospital Tort Liability - Avellone V. St. John's Hospital, Revisited, R. Crawford Morris

Cleveland State Law Review

On July 18, 1956, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down its decision in the case of Avellone v. St. John's Hospital, reversing nearly fifty years of Ohio law and repudiating the limited immunity doctrine as it had heretofore existed. This monumental decision raises two questions of extreme importance which seem to be left unanswered and which will unquestionably be the subject of further litigation. Those questions are: 1. Is the scope of the Avellone decision limited solely t ohospitals or are all charities deprived of immunity? 2. Has Ohio adopted the New York Rule?