Sutton v. Scheidt

Hadley, Judge.

The third-party plaintiffs-appellants, OHIO Insurance Company and Paulding County Hospital (“appellants”), appeal the judgment of the Paulding County Court of Common Pleas granting the third-party defendant-appellee, Ohio Insurance Guaranty Association (“OIGA”), summary judgment on the issue of exhaustion. For the following reasons, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

The pertinent facts and procedural history in this matter are as follows. In 1994, plaintiffs Kathleen 1 and Dewain Freshwater initiated this lawsuit against defendants Robert B. Scheidt, M.D., and the…