Ohio Spine Surgery Patients’ Med Mal Claims Barred as Untimely

Patients allegedly duped into having unnecessary spinal surgery lost their chance to sue their doctor for medical malpractice, as Ohio’s top court ruled Wednesday that the statute of repose bars them from re-filing voluntarily dismissed claims more than four years after the procedures.

Robert Wilson and Mike Sand are just two of many patients treated by Abubakar Atiq Durrani. He allegedly defrauded the federal government by performing unnecessary spinal surgeries and billing federal health programs for the cost.

Cincinnati-based West Chester Hospital and its parent company, UC Health, paid the government $4.1 million in 2015 to resolve False Claims Act ...