In a hotly contested decision, a plurality of the Ohio Supreme Court held for the first time that a claim for defamation is subject to the discovery rule, greatly expanding the potential for businesses and individuals to find...more
Last week, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that victims of anonymous online attacks have an extension of time to file a lawsuit, holding that they can file a suit one year from date the targeted publication is discovered. This...more
If a person is injured by medical negligence, the injured person may have a medical malpractice claim and, if the person dies, the person’s family may have a wrongful-death claim. Over time, the Ohio General Assembly passed a...more
Marchbanks v. Ice House Ventures, LLC, Slip. Op. No. 2023-Ohio-1866. In this discretionary appeal, the Ohio Supreme Court reversed the appellate court’s ruling, finding that an enforceable settlement agreement existed,...more
The Ohio Supreme Court recently held that Plaintiffs cannot rely on Ohio’s saving statute to re-file medical malpractice cases more than four years after the medical care that gave rise to those claims occurred. The statute...more
The Ohio Supreme Court (Supreme Court) rejected an attempt to use Ohio’s savings statute to resurrect a medical malpractice claim that the Plaintiff had failed to timely serve on one of three Defendants. In Moore v. Mount...more
With the start of a new decade, our team wants to share an overview of the past year and a look ahead to the coming months. Please find here a review of relevant legislation that the General Assembly passed in 2019, a summary...more
The Court’s decision in New Riegel Local School District Board of Education, et al. v. The Buehrer Group Architecture & Engineering, Inc., et al. interprets Ohio’s Statute of Repose, which generally requires certain...more
Debt collectors filing suit often assume that the forum state’s statute of limitations will apply. However, a string of recent cases suggests that may not always be the case. The Ohio Supreme Court recently determined that,...more