Huntington Eye Associates, Inc. v. Locascio

This is an appeal of an order of the Circuit Court of Cabell County that in essence set aside a plaintiffs verdict and directed a verdict in favor of the defendant. The court also, in the alternative, awarded the defendant a new trial.

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The appellant and plaintiff below is Huntington Eye Associates, Inc. (“HEA”), a corporation that is solely owned by Dr. Tully Roisman, M.D., an ophthalmologist. The ap-pellee and defendant below is Dr. Joseph A.. LoCascio, III, M.D., also an ophthalmologist.

Dr. Roisman created HEA as a business structure for the ophthalmology practice that Dr. Roisman began in…