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ESTATES OF MORGAN v. FAIRFIELD FAMILY COUNSELING CTR.

No. 95-131.

77 Ohio St.3d 284 (1997)

ESTATES OF MORGAN ET AL., APPELLANTS, v. FAIRFIELD FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER ET AL., APPELLEES; BROWN, APPELLANT.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided January 22, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leeseberg, Maloon, Schulman & Valentine and Jeffrey L. Maloon, for appellants Estates of Jerry L. and Marlene F. Morgan.

Mazanec, Raskin & Ryder Co., L.P.A., John T. McLandrich and Richard A. Williams, for appellees.

Reminger & Reminger Co., L.P.A., and Mark E. Defossez, for appellant Harold T. Brown, M.D.

McCarthy, Palmer, Volkema, Boyd & Thomas and Michael S. Miller, urging affirmance for amicus curiae, Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers.

Richard M. Epps, urging affirmance as to appellees for amicus curiae, Ohio Council of Community Mental Health and Recovery Organizations.

Submitted April 17, 1996 at the New Philadelphia Session.

ALICE ROBIE RESNICK, J.

In Littleton v. Good Samaritan Hosp. & Health Ctr. (1988), 39 Ohio St.3d 86, 529 N.E.2d 449, this court determined that under certain circumstances a psychiatrist can be held liable for the violent acts of a voluntarily hospitalized patient following the patient's release from the hospital. The question left open in Littleton...

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