Dinkel v. Lincoln Publishing (Ohio), Inc.

Walsh, Judge.

Plaintiffs-appellants, Linda A. Dinkel, Michele C. Ardema, and Diana K. Stamler, appeal a decision of the Butler County Court of Common Pleas granting a motion for summary judgment filed by defendant-appellee, Lincoln Publishing (Ohio), Inc.

Dinkel and Stamler are nurses and Ardema is a medical technologist. All three are employed by Mercy Hospital, Hamilton, Ohio, and were working at the hospital on the evening of March 26, 1992. On that evening, a woman named Lisa Farris was brought into Mercy Hospital’s emergency room for treatment of a drug overdose. Hamilton Police Officer…