GRIFFIN v. TWIN VALLEY PSYCHIATRIC SYS

No. 2001-01809.

118 Ohio Misc.2d 301 (2002)

2002-Ohio-3234

GRIFFIN et al. v. TWIN VALLEY PSYCHIATRIC SYSTEMS.

Court of Claims of Ohio.

Decided June 5, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald S. Leeseberg, for plaintiffs Myers, Campolito, Canter, Stevens, and the Stantons.

Michael J. Rourke, for plaintiff Griffin.

Thomas W. Trimble, for plaintiff Bope/Stevens.

Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, Eric A. Walker, Susan M. Sullivan and Anne Berry Strait, Assistant Attorneys General, for defendant.


RICHARD M. MARKUS, Judge.

{¶ 1} This matter came before this court for a bench trial on the defendant psychiatric hospital's liability for multiple murders and other violent harm that a former adult patient (Jerry Hessler) caused on November 19, 1995, four months after the hospital discharged him on July 20, 1995. The plaintiffs claim that the defendant hospital negligently discharged that patient and that its...

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