Panel Reverses Judgment For Nursing Home In Death Suit Over Sepsis, Organ Failure

(October 15, 2024, 10:51 AM EDT) -- CLEVELAND — An Ohio appellate court reversed in part and remanded a lower court’s ruling granting summary judgment to a nursing home and related entities in a wrongful death and negligence suit against them related to a former resident’s sepsis and organ failure that led to his death, finding that the lower court erred in its determination that vicarious liability claims cannot prevail against the nursing home and related parties because the complaint did not name as a defendant an individual employee of the nursing home....