# Willitzer v. McCloud

> Ohio Supreme Court · September 7, 1983 · 6 Ohio St. 3d 447

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6758176

## Case

- **Full name:** Willitzer v. McCloud
- **Court:** Ohio Supreme Court
- **Decided:** September 7, 1983
- **Citations:** 6 Ohio St. 3d 447; 6 Ohio B. 489; 453 N.E.2d 693; 1983 Ohio LEXIS 853
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Brown
- **Judges:** Brown, Celebrezze, Eighth, Holmes, Locher, Pryatel, Sweeney
- **Cited by:** 78 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6758176

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating, under a prior version of workers’ compensation scheme that an independent physician examining workers’ compensation claimants, at the request of the commission for the purpose of reporting their medical conditions was performing an “investigative-medical fact-finding …
- concluding that the litigation privilege shielded a physician from liability arising from his testimony in judicial proceedings but not from claims arising from the manner in which he conducted examinations

## Opinion text

William B. Brown, J.,
dissenting. I wholeheartedly concur in Justice Sweeney’s dissent and would note that this position has found support in other jurisdictions. See Seibel v. Kemble (1981), 63 Haw. 516 , 631 P. 2d 173 (Ogata, J., Supreme Court of Hawaii).

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