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Ohio Supreme Court· 5/14/1980

Hocking Conservancy District v. Dodson-Lindblom Associates, Inc.

Citations

  • 62 Ohio St. 2d 195
  • 404 N.E.2d 164
  • 16 Ohio Op. 3d 217
  • 1980 Ohio LEXIS 718

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that engineering was not one of the traditional professions at common law and, accordingly, not subject to the malpractice statute of limitations
  • \only physicians and lawyers” can commit \malpractice” under both R.C. 2305.11(A) and its common-law definition
  • which limits malpractice actions to the professions of lawyers and physicians because they exercise independent judgment directly affecting their client/patient and necessarily will often fail to fulfill expectations yet fulfill their professional duties
  • professional engineer is not considered to have committed “malpractice”
  • Negligence of professional engineer did not constitute malpractice.

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Judges: Brown, Celebrezze, Herbert, Holmes, Kerns, Locher, Second, Sweeney

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