Ohio Personal Injury Case Law
Please find, below, selected case laws decided by Supreme Court of Ohio or Court of Appeals of Ohio where the terms personal injury or related terms have been mentioned. These cases are not necessarily personal injury and may include cases where the facts or court decision merely mentions personal injury related legal terms. You are not to rely on these cases as legal advice nor should you rely on them for accuracy. Please see Terms of Service.
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Tucker v. Wal-Mart Stores - 12/9/1999
JUDGMENT AFFIRMED.
Meg and David Tucker, plaintiffs-appellants, appeal from the judgment of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, General Division, Case No. CV-311184, in which a jury returned a verdict in favor of...
Overton v. Western Reserve Group - 12/8/1999
This cause was heard upon the record in the trial court. Each error assigned has been reviewed and the following Disposition is made:
SLABY, Judge.
Plaintiffs-appellants, Michael and Lori Overton, have appealed an order of...
Stewart v. Cleveland Clinic Foundation - 12/6/1999
Plaintiffs-appellants appeal from the trial court order granting summary judgment in favor of defendants-appellees. For the reasons adduced below, we affirm in part, and reverse and remand in part.
A review of the record on...
Sirkin v. McBurrows - 12/3/1999
HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO
OPINION.
Civil Appeal From: Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas
Appeal Dismissed
Date of Judgment Entry on Appeal: December 3, 1999
Plaintiffs-appellants Alan L. Sirkin and Steven...
Howard v. Hamilton County Department of Human Services - 12/3/1999
HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO
OPINION.
Civil Appeal From: Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas
Judgment Appealed From Is: Affirmed
Date of Judgment Entry on Appeal: December 3, 1999
Plaintiff-appellant Raquel...
Erie Insurance Co. v. Maxwell - 9/29/1999
STATE OF OHIO
COUNTY OF WAYNE
DECISION AND JOURNAL ENTRY
This cause was heard upon the record in the trial court. Each error assigned has been reviewed and the following Disposition is made:
Appellants Suzanne...
Jackson v. Poland Township - 9/29/1999
JUDGMENT: Affirmed
Sherry Jackson, et al., plaintiffs-appellants, appeal from separate orders of the Mahoning County Common Pleas Court granting summary judgment in favor of defendants-appellees.
On February 7, 1993,...
Rose v. Rose - 9/27/1999
JUDGMENT: Affirmed
Plaintiff-appellant Delmar Rose (hereinafter "husband") appeals the March 30, 1998 Judgment Entry of the Morrow County Court of Common Pleas, Domestic Relations Division, which divided the parties' retirement...
Lassiter v. Oakley-Everson - 9/24/1999
C-980983
DECISION.
Civil Appeal From: Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas
Appeal Dismissed
Please Note: We have sua sponte removed this case from the accelerated calendar.
Plaintiff-appellant Christo...
Owners Insurance Company v. Singh - 9/21/1999
JUDGMENT: Reversed and Remanded
Plaintiff-appellant Owners Insurance Company appeals from the November 5, 1998, Judgment Entry of the Richland County Court of Common Pleas granting summary judgment in favor of...
Archer v. Payne - 9/17/1999
CHARACTER OF PROCEEDING: Appeal from the Muskingum County Court of Common Pleas, Case No. CH98-0752
JUDGMENT: Affirmed
DATE OF JUDGMENT ENTRY: September 17, 1999
Plaintiff-appellant Richard K. Archer appeals the...
Shaffer v. Robinson - 9/16/1999
JUDGMENT Affirmed in part and remanded.
Appellants Earnest Robinson, Sheila Robinson and Mia Robinson, a minor, claim that Bedford Municipal Court Judge Peter J. Junkin erred in affirming and adopting the decision of Small...
Biddle v. Warren General Hospital - 9/15/1999
Submitted March 30, 1999
Sometime prior to 1993, appellant and cross-appellee Robert L. Heller, a shareholder in appellant and cross-appellee Elliott, Heller, Maas, Moro & Magill Co., L.P.A. ("the law firm"), attended a legal...
Klever v. Canton Sachsenheim - 9/15/1999
Torts - Wrongful death - No cause of action in Ohio against liquor permit holder by voluntarily intoxicated patron who is "underage" pursuant to R.C. 4301.22(A)(1) and 4301.69, but who has attained the age of majority, for...
Fabbro v. National Fraternal Order of Eagles - 9/10/1999
JUDGMENT: Affirmed
Appellant Teresa K. Fabbro appeals a summary judgment of the Licking County Common Pleas Court in favor of appellee National Fraternal Order of Eagles (NFOE), and intervenor-appellee Western Reserve Mutual...
Cuyahoga County Bar Association v. Vitullo - 9/8/1999
Attorneys at law - Misconduct suspension - Indefinite suspension - Pattern of misconduct and misappropriation of client funds - Failing to cooperate in disciplinary investigation - Failing to register with Clerk of Supreme Court of...
In re Blackshear - 9/7/1999
JUDGMENT: Affirmed
Appellant Tonya Kimbrough appeals the decision of the Stark County Juvenile Court finding her infant son an abused child pursuant to R.C. 2151.031(D). Appellant gave birth to Lorenzo Blackshear on July 14,...
Rosemann v. City of Berea - 9/2/1999
JUDGMENT AFFIRMED.
In this action for personal injury resulting from a trip and fall, plaintiff-appellant Mildred A. Rosemann appeals from the trial court opinion and order that granted the separate motions for summary judgment...
Crow v. Estate of Sandra Sue Parker - 6/29/1999
CHARACTER OF PROCEEDINGS: Civil appeal from Common Pleas Court JUDGMENT: Judgment affirmed
This appeal arises out of a decision of the Court of Common Pleas of Allen County granting summary judgment in favor of...
Vuyancih v. Bond Chiropractic Center - 6/24/1999
JUDGMENT: Affirmed.
Appellants Christine and Michael Vuyancih ( Vuyancih ) appeal a decision by the trial court denying their motion for a new trial in a chiropractic malpractice action against Appellees Bond Chiropractic...
Cleveland Bar Association v. Santarelli - 6/23/1999
[Cite as Cleveland Bar Assn. v. Santarelli (1999), 86 Ohio St.3d 36.]
Attorneys at law - Misconduct - Indefinite suspension - Neglect of entrusted legal matters - Filing a suit knowing that action would serve merely to harass or...
Kidd v. Center Point Plaza - 6/17/1999
JUDGMENT: Affirmed
On January 1, 1995, appellant, Candace Kidd, traveled to appellee, Center Point Plaza Shopping Center, to return some items to appellee, Value City Department Store. As appellant attempted to enter Value...
Turner v. Boyrdkdar - 6/17/1999
JUDGMENT: Reversed and Remanded.
The issue in this appeal is whether the trial court's order directing attorney James T. Millican to pay a fine of $250 for failing to appear at a scheduled trial date is indirect contempt...
Cincinnati Indemnity Co. v. Martin - 6/16/1999
[Cite as Cincinnati Indemn. Co. v. Martin (1999), ___ Ohio St.3d ___.]
Insurance - Insurer has no duty to defend or indemnify a homeowner/policyholder in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by a noninsured based on the death of an...
Ferrero v. Ferrero - 6/8/1999
JOHN D. FERRERO v. GINA M. FERRERO
Spousal support/ division of marital property/ medical expenses
JUDGMENT: Modified and affirmed as modified.
The instant appeal emanates from a final judgment of the Stark County...
Catalfamo v. Lehman Awning Co. - 6/7/1999
JUDGMENT: Affirmed
Defendant Lehman Awning Company appeals a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of Stark County, Ohio, entered on a jury verdict finding defendant was liable to plaintiffs Charles and Shelley Catalfamo for...
Laidley v. St. Luke's Medical Center - 6/3/1999
DATE OF ANNOUNCEMENT OF DECISION: JUNE 3, 1999
JUDGMENT: AFFIRMED IN PART, REVERSED IN PART AND REMANDED.
Plaintiff-appellant Marcia Laidley ( appellant ) appeals from the summary judgment entered by the Cuyahoga County...
Selander v. Erie Insurance Group - 6/2/1999
[Cite as Selander v. Erie Ins. Group (1999), ___ Ohio St.3d ___.]
Insurance - Motor vehicles - Provisions of R.C. 3937.18 apply to policy of primary insurance which provides coverage for claims of liability arising out of the use...
Smith v. Lima Memorial Hospital - 5/27/1999
CHARACTER OF PROCEEDINGS: Civil appeal from Common Pleas Court
JUDGMENT: Judgment affirmed
This is an appeal from a judgment entry of the Common Pleas Court of Allen County dated March 21, 1997, denying the motion of...
Wagner v. Roche Laboratories - 5/12/1999
[Cite as Wagner v. Roche Laboratories (1999), ___ Ohio St.3d ___.]
Civil procedure - Defendant not sufficiently prejudiced by trial court's instruction on breach of express warranty, so that trial court did not err in denying...
Sreshta v. Kaydan - 5/6/1999
Judgment: Affirmed in part; reversed in part.
Defendant-appellant Svetlana Kaydan appeals from the summary judgments entered by the Garfield Heights Municipal Court in favor of plaintiff-appellee Flavia Sreshta, D.D.S. arising...
Abbott v. Kolenc - 5/5/1999
JUDGMENT: Affirmed
Appellant Billie Jo Abbott appeals a judgment of the Knox County Common Pleas Court awarding her damages in the amount of $9050.92 against appellees Jason Kolenc and State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance: ...
State ex rel LTV Steel Co. v. Industrial Commission - 3/24/1999
[Cite as State ex rel. LTV Steel Co. v. Indus. Comm. (1999), ___ Ohio St.3d ___.]
Workers' compensation - Signature-stamped physician's report constitutes a signed report that may be relied upon by the Industrial Commission in...
State ex rel Abner v. Elliott - 3/17/1999
[Cite as State ex rel. Abner v. Elliott (1999), ___ Ohio St.3d ___.]
Prohibition to prevent common pleas court Judge from enforcing any of his discovery orders in an asbestos litigation - Dismissal of prohibition action pursuant...
Yaeger v. Fairview General Hospital - 3/11/1999
JUDGMENT: AFFIRMED.
Plaintiff-appellant Helen Elizabeth Yaeger, as Executrix of the Estate of her deceased husband Harry G. Yaeger, Jr. ( appellant ), appeals from a jury verdict and judgment entered by the Cuyahoga County...
Cleveland Bar Association v. Stebbins - 3/3/1999
[Cite as Cleveland Bar Assn. v. Stebbins (1999), ___ Ohio St.3d ___.]
Attorneys at law - Misconduct - One-year suspension with entire suspension stayed - Misappropriating client funds.
Submitted December 16, 1998
In...
Dayton Bar Association v. Buren. - 12/30/1998
Submitted September 29, 1998
[Cite as Dayton Bar Assn. v. Buren (1998), ___ Ohio St.3d ___.]
Attorneys at law - Misconduct - Disbarrment - Engaging in continuing course of deceit, misrepresentation, and neglect of duty to...
First Benefits Agency - 12/30/1998
DICKINSON, Judge.
Plaintiff First Benefits Agency Incorporated has attempted to appeal from two orders of the Summit County Common Pleas Court, the first of which denied its motion to remove this case from the trial court's...
Cleveland Bar Association v. Sterling - 12/30/1998
Submitted September 29, 1998
[Cite as Cleveland Bar Assn. v. Sterling (1998), ___ Ohio St.3d ___.]
Attorneys at law - Misconduct - Indefinite suspension - Forging client's signature on an affidavit and notarizing it -...
Tudor v. Cincinnati - 12/18/1998
PAINTER, Judge.
Plaintiff-appellee Mitcheal B. Tudor filed a negligence lawsuit against defendant-appellant city of Cincinnati after he fell several stories down an empty, unguarded elevator shaft in Queensgate II Town Center...
Pollock v. Castle - 12/17/1998
DATE OF ANNOUNCEMENT OF DECISION: DECEMBER 17, 1998
JUDGMENT: Affirmed in part and Reversed in part.
Appellant Jeanne Pollack appeals a decision by the trial court denying her prejudgment interest and $897 for videotaped...
Vinci v. Heimbach - 12/17/1998
JUDGMENT: Affirmed.
Plaintiffs-appellants Nina Stein and Theresa Vinci, an automobile driver and passenger, appeal in these consolidated appeals from summary judgment against them on their personal injury claims against...
Canty v. Affordable Chiropractic - 12/17/1998
JUDGMENT: Affirmed.
Appellant Johnny Canty appeals a decision by the trial court granting summary judgment in favor of appellees Affordable Chiropractic Clinics, Adam Rutkowski, D.C., John Strom, D.C., Peoples Chiropractic,...
Pearson v. Wasell - 12/16/1998
COX, Judge.
This matter presents a timely appeal from a jury verdict and judgment rendered upon that verdict by the Columbiana County Common Pleas Court, finding in favor of defendant-appellee, Joann Commarota Wasell, and from...
Gubanc v. Warren - 12/16/1998
DICKINSON, Judge.
Plaintiff Stan Gubane has appealed from an order of the Summit County Common Pleas Court that granted summary judgment to defendants Richard Warren, Michael Toth, and Tim Davis on federal claims based on...
Hinte v. Echo - 12/10/1998
DESHLER, Presiding Judge.
Plaintiff-appellant, Joseph Hinte, appeals from a judgment of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas entered pursuant to a jury verdict in favor of defendant-appellee, Echo, Inc., in appellant's...
Chiropractic Clinic of Solon - 12/10/1998
JUDGMENT: AFFIRMED.
Plaintiff-appellant Chiropractic Clinic of Solon ( appellant ) appeals the judgment of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas wherein the court denied appellant's motion for summary judgment on its...
Erie Ins. Co. v. Kaltenbach - 12/10/1998
JOHN C. YOUNG, Judge.
Appellant, John J. Kaltenbach II, appeals the judgment of the Franklin County Municipal Court granting the motion for summary judgment of appellee, Erie Insurance Company, and denying Kaltenbach's motion...
Baughman v. Krebs - 12/10/1998
JUDGMENT Affirmed.
Deborah and Katherine Baughman, plaintiffs-appellants, appeal from the judgment of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, General Division, Case No. CV-324187, in which the jury awarded medical expenses...
Flower v. K-Mart Corp. - 12/4/1998
Per Curiam.
Kimberly Flower and her spouse, Michael Flower, appeal from the summary judgment entered against them in the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas on their personal-injury and loss-of-consortium claims. Because our...
Barnes v. North Shore Car Wash - 12/3/1998
JUDGMENT: Affirmed.
Appellant Gwendolyn Barnes, administratrix of her son Robert Barnes' estate, appeals the trial court's granting summary judgment in favor of Appellee North Shore Car Wash, d/b/a American Pride Car Wash (...
Hocevar v. Rao - 12/3/1998
DATE OF ANNOUNCEMENT OF DECISION: DECEMBER 3, 1998
JUDGMENT: Affirmed.
Plaintiffs-appellants Raymond and Denise Hocevar appeal from a jury verdict awarding them $2,625 in damages against defendant-appellee Ramanath Rao,...
Hall v. Woyshville - 12/3/1998
JUDGMENT: AFFIRMED.
Plaintiffs-appellants Vanessa and Larry Hall (collectively appellants ) appeal from the trial court's order granting summary judgment in favor of defendants-appellees Mark Woyshville, M.D. and University...
Montgomery v. Zalud - 8/20/1998
JUDGMENT REVERSED AND REMANDED.
Appellant, Lisa Montgomery, appeals the granting of partial summary judgment in favor of appellee, Barbara Zalud, concerning appellant's strict liability claim. Appellant voluntarily dismissed,...
Simmons v. Imperial Service Systems - 8/20/1998
JUDGMENT: AFFIRMED.
Appellant Erika Simmons appeals the trial court's order adopting the jury's verdict that appellant was not entitled to participate in the Worker's Compensation Fund. For the following reasons, we affirm. ...
Apel v. Katz - 8/19/1998
Alice Robie Resnick, J.
This case first presents the issue of the correct interpretation to be given to the scope of the reservation of the right to keep and maintain a roadway over the easement on appellees' property....
Feeney v. Eshack - 8/19/1998
REECE, Judge.
This action came before the Summit County Court of Common Pleas involving multiple parties. Pat Feeney, appellee and cross-appellant, brought a personal injury action against John Eshack, appellant and...
Schaffer v. Gateway Harvestore - 8/19/1998
EVANS, Judge.
This appeal is brought by Constance and Jeanne Schaffer, appellants, on behalf of their minor children, Taaron and Leah Schaffer, from a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of Auglaize County granting a motion...
White v. DePuy - 8/17/1998
WALSH, Judge.
Plaintiffs-appellants, Gloria and Glen White ("the Whites"), appeal a decision of Butler County Court of Common Pleas denying their motion for summarsjudgment against defendant-appellee DePuy, Inc. ("DePuy") and...
Estate of Minser v. Poinsatte - 8/14/1998
SHERCK, Judge.
This is an appeal from a summary judgment granted by the Williams County Court of Common Pleas in favor of a tortfeasor who was sued under Ohio's common-law rescue doctrine for the death of a bystander at an...
Allstate Ins. Co. v. Cole - 8/12/1998
EDWARD J. MAHONEY, Judge.
Defendant-appellant Lundy Robinson, Jr. appeals a grant of summary judgment in favor of plaintiff-appellee Allstate Insurance Company ("Allstate"). We affirm in part and reverse in part.
...
D'Agastino v. Uniroyal-Goodrich Tire Co. - 8/7/1998
HANDWORK, Presiding Judge.
This appeal is from the October 23, 1997 judgment of the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas, in which the court held that its prior order granting summary judgment to appellee, the Budd Company, and...
Harp v. City of Cleveland Heights - 8/6/1998
Judgment: Affirmed
Plaintiff-appellant Malinda D. Harp, Administratrix of the Estate of Ruth Brewer, Deceased, appeals from the summary judgment entered in favor of the defendant-appellee City of Cleveland Heights on...
Conley v. Brown Corp. - 8/5/1998
Conley et al.; Nationwide Insurance Companies/Nationwide Property and Casualty Insurance Company, Appellant, v. Brown Corporation of Waverly, Inc., Appellee.
Employer and employee - Liability of employer for intentional tortious...
Conley v. Brown Corp. of Waverly - 8/5/1998
Douglas, J.
The case at bar presents us with an excellent opportunity to revisit the holdings in Taylor, 36 Ohio St.3d 149, 522 N.E.2d 464, and to expressly overrule Taylor as an anomaly of Ohio law. For the reasons that...
Watkins v. Eighth Dist. Court of Appeals - 8/5/1998
The State ex rel. Watkins et al. v. Eighth District Court of Appeals et al.
Writ of procedendo to compel court of appeals to lift its stay of Cleveland Clinic Foundation's appeal in a medical malpractice action against it and to...
State ex rel. Watkins v. Eighth Dist. Court of Appeals - 8/5/1998
Per Curiam.
Cleveland Clinic seeks to intervene as a respondent. Cleveland Clinic is the appellant in the underlying proceeding stayed by the court of appeals. Based on our duty to liberally construe Civ.R. 24 in...
Boxerbaum v. Marc Glassman - 7/30/1998
PER CURIAM
JUDGMENT Affirmed.
This cause came on to be heard upon the accelerated calender pursuant to App.R. 11.1 and Loc. App.R. 25, the record from the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas and the briefs of counsel....
Nicks v. ABB Services Inc. - 7/30/1998
JUDGMENT: AFFIRMED
Defendants-appellants ABB CE Services, Inc., Administrator of the Bureau of Workers' Compensation, and the Industrial Commission of Ohio ( appellants ) appeal from the jury verdict finding that...
State ex rel Ross v. Industrial Commission - 7/29/1998
[Cite as State ex rel. Ross v. Indus. Comm. (1998), ___ Ohio St.3d ___.]
Workers' compensation - Application for death benefits denied by Industrial Commission - Action in mandamus dismissed when claimant has an adequate remedy...
State ex rel. Ross v. Indus. Comm. - 7/29/1998
Per Curiam.
One issue is presented: Does claimant have an adequate remedy at law via an R.C. 4123.512 appeal? For the reasons to follow, we find that she does.
R.C. 4123.512 provides:
"(A) The claimant or the...
Furr v. State Farm. Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. - 6/26/1998
KNEPPER, Judge.
This is an appeal from the judgment of the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas granting Reuben Furr judgment against Milwaukee Guardian Insurance Company ("Milwaukee") in the total amount of $168,575, plus...
Cincinnati Bar Association v. Cromwell - 6/24/1998
[Cite as Cincinnati Bar Assn. v. Cromwell (1998), ___ Ohio St.3d ___.] Unauthorized practice of law - Individual not licensed to practice law in Ohio who represents others with regard to their causes of action for injury, communicates...
Cincinnati Bar Assn. v. Cromwell - 6/24/1998
Per Curiam.
We adopt the findings and conclusions of the board. As the board correctly noted, the practice of law includes representing others with regard to their causes of action for personal injury, communicating with...
Weiker v. Motorists Mutual Insurance Co. - 6/17/1998
Insurance - Motor vehicles - Underinsured motorist coverage - Wrongful death beneficiary not precluded from underinsured motorist coverage because of failure to notify insurer of a wrongful death settlement.
Submitted February 3,...
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