Update: On May 8, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

Read an analysis of the oral argument here.

On January 25, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in Kristen Elliott-Thomas v. David Kane Smith, et. al. 2017-0693. The issue

Case Background

A long, long time ago (January 19, 2010, to be exact) Donald Yeaples was injured while working as a laborer for Precision Directional Boring, a Medina County Company. He was on a job to identify residential connections with storm, sanitary and water pipes in order to bore a path for a new water

Update: On February 8, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

“Given the current status of the science in this area is it ever possible to say what is or isn’t a significant factor… Is it just that the science is different from what

Case Background

Seth Cromer died at the age of five while a patient at the Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Akron. Seth’s parents brought him to the emergency room of the hospital on the evening of January 13, 2007 with an ear infection that worsened into a secondary infection.  He died the next day in

Update: On February 8, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

Read the analysis of the oral argument here.

On October 17, 2017, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case Mark Schwartz, Individually and as the Executor of the

Update: On January 31, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio released a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

“My problem is, I’m still trying to figure out what damage did LGR have before their insurance company refused to defend them?”

Justice O’Neill

On September 12, 2017, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard

On  September 12, 2017, the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in Stewart v. Vivian, 2017-Ohio-7526. The court was asked to answer the following certified question:

“[Are] a health care provider’s statements of fault or statements admitting liability made during the course of apologizing or  commiserating with a patient or

“Nothing in our precedents dictates that the word “person” be limited to patrons.”

Justice DeWine, majority opinion

“I am unable to join a majority decision that absolves from liability a liquor-permit holder who encourages the dancers in its club to drink alcohol in order to reap enormous profits from the drinks purchased for the dancers,

Update: On January 31, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio released a merit decision in this case.  Read the analysis here.

Read the analysis of the oral argument here.

On September 12, 2017, the Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral argument in the case of  LGR Realty, Inc., v. Frank and London Insurance Agency,