Rouse v. Riverside Methodist Hospital

Plaintiffs appeal from a judgment of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas in favor of plaintiff Lisa Rouse upon a verdict for $250,000 compensatory damages as against defendant Riverside Methodist Hospital but otherwise in favor of defendants. In support of their appeal, plaintiffs have raised nine assignments of error, as follows:

“1. The trial court erred in prohibiting appellants from presenting any testimony to the jury on punitive damage issues plead in this complaint against Riverside Methodist Hospital on issue of the hospital’s total failure to assure proper calibration of its…