
    Skaggs et al., Appellees, v. Lima Memorial Hospital et al., Appellants.
    [Cite as Skaggs v. Lima Memorial Hosp. (1991), 62 Ohio St.3d 296.]
    (No. 90-2108
    Submitted November 20, 1991
    Decided December 24, 1991.)
    
      Wolske & Blue, Michael S. Miller and Gerald S. Leesberg, for appellees.
    
      Oxley, Malone, Fitzgerald & Hollister, Michael J. Malone and Julie A. Davenport, for appellant Lima Memorial Hospital.
    
      Gooding, Huffman, Kelley & Becker, Lawrence S. Huffman and Matthew C. Huffman, for appellant James L. Kahn, M.D.
    
      Steven J. Hupp; Jacobson, Maynard, Tuschman & Kalur, James M. Tuschman and Nancy D. Moody, for appellant Panathur S.G. Reddy, M.D.
    
      Maloon, Maloon & Barclay Co., L.P.A., and Jeffrey L. Maloon, urging affirmance for amicus curiae, Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers.
    
      Bricker & Eckler, James J. Hughes, Jr., Richard S. Lovering and Bernadette J. Bollas, urging reversal for amicus curiae, Ohio Hospital Association.
   The cause is affirmed on authority of Muze v. Mayfield (1991), 61 Ohio St.3d 173, 573 N.E.2d 1078, and Benda v. Fana (1967), 10 Ohio St.2d 259, 39 O.O.2d 410, 227 N.E.2d 197, paragraph one of the syllabus.

Moyer, C.J., Sweeney, Strausbaugh, Douglas, Wright, H. Brown and Resnick, JJ., concur.

Dean Strausbaugh, J., of the Tenth Appellate District, sitting for Holmes, J.  