Dodson v. Ohio State University Medical Center

Fred J. Shoemaker, Judge.

{¶ 1} This case was tried to the court on the issue of liability. Plaintiff asserts that she sustained personal injury on defendant’s premises as a result of defendant’s negligence.

{¶ 2} On January 16, 1999, plaintiff and her daughter, Robin Milam, went to visit another of plaintiffs daughters, Brenda Case, who was a patient at The Ohio State University Medical Center (“OSUMC”). Case’s 50th birthday party had been planned for that morning in the atrium at Rhodes Hall.

{¶ 3} Plaintiff and Milam took an elevator to the fifth floor of Rhodes Hall. Milam stepped out of the…