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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Weiker v. Motorists Mut. Ins. Co. - 6/17/1998
Francis E. Sweeney, Sr., J.
The issue in this is case is whether a wrongful death beneficiary is precluded from underinsured motorist coverage because of her failure to notify her insurer of a proposed wrongful death...
Chemstress Consultant Co. - 6/17/1998
DICKINSON, Judge.
Defendant Cincinnati Insurance Company has appealed from an order of the Summit County Common Pleas Court that granted plaintiffs Chemstress Consultant Company, Timothy Tausch, and Steve Clark (collectively...
Waite v. Progressive Ins. Co. - 6/12/1998
SHERCK, Judge.
This appeal comes to us from a judgment issued by the Huron County Court of Common Pleas in a declaratory judgment action regarding claims for underinsured motorist coverage. Because we conclude that appellee was...
In re Estate of Kinder - 6/12/1998
EVANS, Judge.
This is an appeal by Ralph Kinder, Jr. ("appellant") from a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of Defiance County, Probate Division, removing him as administrator of Ralph L. Kinder, Sr.'s estate for the reason...
Cleveland Bar Association v. Belock - 6/10/1998
Attorneys at law - Misconduct - Disbarrment - Deliberate misappropriation of client funds for personal benefit.
Submitted March 3, 1998
On Certified Report by the Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline of the...
Westfield Ins. Co. v. Huls Am. - 6/9/1998
JOHN C. YOUNG, Judge.
Appellants appeal from a February 24, 1997 judgment entry of the trial court granting summary judgment in favor of appellee. Plaintiffs-appellants insurance companies Westfield Insurance, Cincinnati...
In re Estate of Johnson - 6/8/1998
O'DONNELL, Judge.
Mt. Sinai Medical Center, George Gelehrter, M.D., and Cynthia Solomon (collectively known as the Mount Sinai defendants) purport to appeal from a judgment of the Cuyahoga County Probate Court, which vacated...
McCulley v. Good Samaritan Hosp. - 6/5/1998
MARIANNA BROWN BETTMAN, Judge.
Plaintiff-appellant Michael McCulley appeals from the trial court's grant of summary judgment in favor of defendants-appellees, Good Samaritan Hospital ("the Hospital"), Anesthesia Associates of...
Kemo v. St. Clairsville - 6/4/1998
COX, Judge.
This timely appeal arises from a December 4, 1996 judgment of the Belmont County Common Pleas Court granting plaintiff-appellee Jack Kemo back wages in the amount of $45,212.79 upon finding that defendant-appellant...
Dicapo v. Ahmed - 6/4/1998
JUDGMENT AFFIRMED.
Appellant appeals the trial court's granting of appellee's motion for a directed verdict and the trial court's exclusion of certain evidence. As the record indicates the trial court did not err, we affirm. ...
Lewis v. Alfa Laval Separation - 6/4/1998
PETER B. ABELE, Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment entered by the Lawrence County Common Pleas Court after a jury trial. The jury awarded Russell G. Lewis and his wife, Minnie Lewis, plaintiffs below and...
Fone v. Ford Motor Co. - 5/28/1998
PER CURIAM
JUDGMENT: REVERSED AND REMANDED.
Delores Kramer, Terry Lee Fone, and Progressive Insurance Company appeal from a common pleas court order dismissing their consolidated product liability suits against the Ford...
In re Estate of Johnson - 5/28/1998
DATE OF ANNOUNCEMENT OF DECISION: MAY 28, 1998
JUDGMENT: APPEAL DISMISSED.
Mt. Sinai Medical Center, George Gelehrter, M.D., and Cynthia Solomon (collectively known as the Mount Sinai defendants) purport to appeal from a...
Harris v. Mt. Sinai Medical Center - 5/28/1998
DATE OF ANNOUNCEMENT OF DECISION: MAY 28, 1998
JUDGMENT: AFFIRMED.
Alice Harris, individually, and as Administratrix of the estate of Johnny Lee Harris Stoudmire, and Johnny Lee Stoudmire appeal from decisions of the...
Stover v. State Farm Ins. Co. - 5/21/1998
HADLEY, Judge.
This is an appeal of a Seneca County Common Pleas Court judgment entry both granting and dismissing the parties' relative summary judgment motions on a declaratory judgment action. For the following reasons, we...
Pittock v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Ohio - 5/14/1998
JUDGMENT AFFIRMED.
Appellants contend that the trial court abused its discretion in admitting testimony from two treating physicians and in excluding demonstration testimony offered by the plaintiff- appellant. Appellants also...
Santoli v. Marbuery - 5/14/1998
JUDGMENT: REVERSE
Defendant-appellant Delores Marbuery ( appellant ) appeals from the granting of plaintiff-appellee David Santoli's motion for new trial.
Appellant assigns the following errors for review:
I. THE...
Walker v. Thomas - 5/14/1998
JUDGMENT: Affirmed.
PER CURIAM
In this accelerated case, appellants Shereda, Shekeda, and Deevon Walker appeal a decision by the trial court in favor of appellee Leroy Thomas in their action for personal injuries...
Roach v. Unarco Industries - 5/14/1998
JUDGMENT AFFIRMED.
Beverly Roach, appellant, brings this appeal as administratrix of the estate of San W. Roach, Sr., following a jury trial against Unarco Industries, Inc. (hereinafter Unarco ), appellee, on a claim that...
Katz v. Mt. Sinai Medical Center - 5/7/1998
JUDGMENT: AFFIRMED.
Lillian Katz appeals from a decision of the common pleas court granting summary judgment to the Mount Sinai Medical Center in connection with her claims alleging professional negligence of a nurse's aide...
Gargiulo v. Walden - 5/7/1998
Judgment: AFFIRMED
Plaintiff-appellant SusanGargiulo appeals from a jury verdict and judgment in her favor on the grounds that the personal injury award of $4,035.25 was inadequate as a matter of law; the trial court erred in...
Aerosole Sys. - 5/4/1998
JAMES D. SWEENEY, Judge.
Plaintiff-appellant and cross-appellee Aerosol System, Inc. ("Aerosol") appeals from a jury verdict in favor of defendant-appellee and cross-appellant Wells Fargo Alarm Services, Inc. ("Wells Fargo")....
Walker v. E. End Community Health Ctr. - 5/1/1998
MARIANNA BROWN BETTMAN, Judge.
Plaintiff-appellant Opal Walker, individually and as the administrator of the estate of her son Arliss Walker, filed a complaint against defendants-appellees, East End Community Health...
Homan v. George - 4/30/1998
STRAUSBAUGH, Judge.
Plaintiffs-appellants, Brendyn and Kelle Homan, appeal the decision and order of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas granting the motion to dismiss of defendants-appellees, William George, Judith...
Gulitz v. Gulitz - 4/30/1998
JUDGMENT Affirmed.
PER CURIAM
This cause came to be heard upon the accelerated calendar pursuant to App.R. 11.1 and Loc.R. 25, the record from the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, and the briefs of the parties. On...
Collins v. Sotka - 4/29/1998
[Cite as Collins v. Sotka (1998), ___ Ohio St.3d ___.]
Torts - Wrongful death - Discovery rule tolls R.C. 2125.02(D), when - Statute of limitations in wrongful death action that stems from a murder begins to run, when.
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Dobbelaere v. Cosco - 12/31/1997
HADLEY, Judge.
Plaintiffs/appellants, Sandra and Michael Dobbelaere (hereinafter known collectively as "Dobbelaere"), appeal the judgment of the Paulding County Common Pleas Court granting the motions for summary judgment of...
United Tel. Co. of Ohio v. Williams Excavating - 12/31/1997
SHAW, Judge.
This opinion consolidates the two appeals by appellant Williams Excavating, Inc. ("Williams") and appellant Southwest Licking Community Water and Sewer District ("Southwest"), which arise from three separate sewer...
Graham v. Ceder Point Inc. - 12/31/1997
SHERCK, Judge.
This is an appeal from a directed verdict rendered by the Erie County Court of Common Pleas after opening statements were given in a negligence trialsBecause we conclude that the trial court improperly found that...
Mahoney v. Westfield Ins. Co. - 12/30/1997
DESHLER, Judge.
Defendant-appellant, Westfield Insurance Company ("Westfield"), appeals from a judgment of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas releasing certaisinterpleaded funds in the amount of $305,836.86 plus interest...
Pusey v. Grief Bros. Corp. - 12/29/1997
GENE DONOFRIO, Presiding Judge.
Plaintiff-appellant, Ethel L. Pusey, appeals from an order of the Mahoning County Court of Common Pleas granting a directed verdict in favor of defendantappellee, Greif Brothers Corporation, in...
Collins v. Grange Mut. Cas. Co. - 12/29/1997
WILLIAM W. YOUNG, Presiding Judge.
Appellant, Grange Mutual Casualty Co., appeals a declaratory judgment in favor of Appellee, Bush Auto Place, Inc. The trial court found that Grange waived its right to assert policy exceptions...
Chaney v. Eason - 12/24/1997
PER CURIAM
JUDGMENT: AFFIRMED.
Plaintiff-appellant, Letha Chaney ( appellant ), administratrix of the Estate of Shawn Chaney, appeals from the judgment of the trial court granting defendants-appellees, State Farm...
Blanton v. Internatl. Minerals & Chem. Corp. - 12/19/1997
PAINTER, Presiding Judge.
Timothy Blanton, plaintiff-appellant, worked for defendant-appellee Hamilton Foundry and Machine Co. operating a "CB-22" core-making machine. The machine produces cores by compressing a sand mixture...
Tanzi v. Nahigian - 12/18/1997
JUDGMENT: Reversed and Remanded.
Plaintiffs-appellants Arlene Tanzi and Peter Tanzi appeal from the trial court's order granting the motion for summary judgment filed by the defendant-appellee Dr. Stanley Nahigian. The trial...
Schwartz v. Osiatynski - 12/18/1997
Andzej Osiatynski appeals and Carol Ann Schwartz cross-appeals from a decree of divorce entered by the Domestic Relations Division of the Common Pleas Court, and each party raises multiple assignments of error, alleging trial court...
Bilfield v. Orange Board Of Education - 12/11/1997
JUDGMENT Affirmed.
Plaintiffs-appellants Judy Bilfield and her minor son Brandon Bilfield appeal from the trial court order which granted defendant- appellee Orange Board of Education's motion for summary judgment, thus...
Wilson v. Red Roof Inns - 12/11/1997
JUDGMENT Affirmed.
Plaintiff-appellant Jeanne A. Wilson instituted this personal injury action against defendant-appellee Red Roof Inns, Inc. for injuries sustained in a fall which occurred when appellant slipped while...
Zemcik v. Lapine Truck Sales & Equipment Co. - 12/11/1997
Judgment Judgment reversed; judgment entered for appellant.
Defendant-appellant LaPine Truck Sales and Equipment Company (LaPine) appeals from a summary judgment, jury verdict and treble damage judgment of $30,000 plus attorney...
Pfaff v. Benjamin Air Rifle Co. - 12/11/1997
JUDGMENT: AFFIRMED.
Jack Pfaff, plaintiff-appellant, appeals the granting of summary judgment by the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas in favor of Benjamin Air Rifle Co., et al., defendants-appellees. Plaintiff-appellant...
Wingfield v. Cleveland Clinic Foundation - 12/11/1997
Deborah Wingfield, plaintiff-appellant, appeals a jury verdict that denied her workers' compensation for a sprained and strained back and a herniated disk at the L-5. Cleveland Clinic Foundation ( CCF ), defendant-appellee, her...
Pesek v. University Neurologists Assn. - 12/11/1997
JUDGMENT AFFIRMED.
Plaintiffs-appellants appeal from the verdict entered in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas in which a jury found in favor of the defendants-appellees in appellants' action for medical malpractice...
Gordon v. Continental Cas. Co. - 12/11/1997
CLOSE, Judge.
This is an appeal from a decision of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, denying plaintiffs-appellants, James H. Gordon, executor of the estate of Lydia K. Gordon, et al., prejudgment interest on an...
Prudential Prop. & Cas. Ins. Co. v. Koby - 12/8/1997
FORD, Presiding Judge.
This is an accelerated calendar appeal from the Trumbull County Court of Common Pleas. Appellant, Prudential Property and Casualty Insurance Company, appeals from a judgment entry granting summary...
Stevens v. Jeffrey Allen Corp. - 12/5/1997
MARIANNA BROWN BETTMAN, Judge.
This is a wrongful death action brought by Ronald Stevens as personal representative of the estate of his wife, Shirley. Shirley Stevens was killed when, during a severe thunderstorm, a...
Austin v. Standard Building - 12/4/1997
JUDGMENT AFFIRMED.
Plaintiff-appellant Jo Anne Austin appeals the decision of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas wherein it granted summary judgment in favor of defendant-appellee R.W. Clark Co. For the reasons stated...
Gammon v. Blakeley - 12/4/1997
JUDGMENT: AFFIRMED.
Plaintiff-appellant Lynn Gammon, Administratrix of the Estate of Jason Gammon, ( appellant ) appeals from the grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendants-appellees.
Appellant assigns the...
Waddell v. LTV Steel Co. - 12/3/1997
ROCCO, Judge.
LTV Steel Co., Inc. ("LTV") and Richard Rigby appeal from a November 25, 1996 judgment of the common pleas court directing a verdict in favor of Northern RCR, Inc. ("RCR") and dismissing with prejudice LTV and...
King v. W. Res. Group - 12/1/1997
GENE DONOFRIO, Presiding Judge.
Western Reserve Group, appellant, appeals the order of the Monroe County Court of Common Pleas granting summary judgment in a declaratory judgment action in favor of appellees, Betty King, Clyde...
Braswell v. Duncan - 11/26/1997
Judgment Affirmed
Plaintiffs-appellants Imogene Braswell and Julia Brown appeal from the dismissal of their complaint against the defendants- appellees State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company (State Farm) and its...
Gruenspan v. Seitz - 11/24/1997
PATTON, Judge.
Plaintiff-attorney Charles Gruenspan brought this libel and tortious-interference-with-judicial-process action against defendant-doctor William H. Seitz, Jr., Seitz's attorney, Clay Robinson, and Robinson's law...
Hamilton Mut. Ins. Co. v. Perry - 11/21/1997
Per Curiam.
This case is on appeal from a declaratory judgment of the Ottawa County Court of Common Pleas.
This case began as a declaratory judgment action filed by appellant, Hamilton Mutual Insurance Company, in the...
Wilson v. Nationwide Insurance Co. - 11/20/1997
JUDGMENT Affirmed.
In this action for a declaratory judgment regarding coverage under two automobile insurance policies, plaintiff-appellants Patricia Berneski and Donald Fields appeal from the trial court order granting...
C&K;Industrial Services - 11/20/1997
JUDGMENT: Affirmed.
C&K;Industrial Services, plaintiff-appellant, appeals a decision by the trial court in favor of Julie Smith, defendant- appellee, in a declaratory judgment action. Julie Smith filed the action as...
State v. Smith - 11/6/1997
JUDGMENT: AFFIRMED.
Defendant-appellant Willie Smith ( appellant ) appeals from his convictions for one count of kidnapping in violation of R.C. 2905.01 and one count of aggravated murder in violation of R.C. 2903.01. Appellant...
MetroHealth Med. Ctr. v. Hoffmann-LaRoche - 11/5/1997
Pfeifer, J.
The United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division, has certified the following questions to this court for our determination:
" For purposes of OHIO REV. CODE ANN. 2307.31 and...
Staten v. Ohio Exterminating Co. - 11/4/1997
BOWMAN, Judge.
Rommel Knox was employed as a service technician trainee by defendantappellee, the Ohio Exterminating Company, Inc., on June 18, 1994. After he was in the home of Patricia Jean Smith, along with his supervisor,...
Hayes v. Administrator - 10/30/1997
PER CURIAM
JUDGMENT AFFIRMED
This cause came on to be heard upon the accelerated calendar pursuant to App.R. 11.1 and Loc.R. 25, the records from the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas and the briefs of counsel. ...
Homa v. Pumpkin Patch Shoppe For Kids - 10/30/1997
PER CURIAM
JUDGMENT: AFFIRMED.
This cause came to be heard on the accelerated calendar pursuant to App. R. 11.1 and Loc. R. 25, the records from the court of common pleas, and the briefs.
Plaintiff-appellant Grace...
State ex rel - 9/30/1997
Per Curiam.
This cause presents a complaint in mandamus filed by relator on May 14, 1997, seeking an order to compel respondent to allow relator to review his own medical records maintained at the institution where he is...
Nationwide Mut. Fire Ins. Co. v. Pendrey - 9/30/1997
Per Curiam.
This case is before the court on appeal from a judgment of the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas which declared that plaintiff-appellant, Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance Company ("Nationwide"), shall provide legal...
Popovich v. S. Park Pontiac & Subaru - 9/26/1997
GENE DONOFRIO, Presiding Judge.
Plaintiff-appellant, John F. Popovich, appeals from a judgment of the Mahoning County Common Pleas Court granting summary judgment in favor of defendants-appellees Allstate Insurance Company and...
Wargo v. Buck - 9/25/1997
GENE DONOFRIO, Presiding Judge.
Plaintiffs-appellants, Eugene G. Wargo and Jean Wargo, appeal from a final order of the Mahoning County Common Pleas Court upon a jury verdict in this personal injury action. Defendant-appellee,...
Allen Cty. Bar Assn. v. Sabol - 9/24/1997
Per Curiam.
As a result of an automobile accident on October 4, 1989, Kathy and Bri Thompson engaged respondent to represent them in pursuing their personal injury claims. On June 6, 1990, Kathy Thompson filed a...
Yepko v. State Farm Mut. Ins. Co. - 9/24/1997
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The following question has been certified to us by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Western Division, pursuant to S.Ct.Prac.R. XVIII:
"Whether a wrongful death...
Holt v. Grange Mut. Cas. Co. - 9/24/1997
Alice Robie Resnick, J.
The issue certified for our review is "whether a wrongful death claimant who is a statutory beneficiary of an insured decedent can recover under the uninsured[/underinsured] motorist provisions of...
Hillyer v. State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Co. - 9/18/1997
JUDGMENT: REVERSED AND REMANDED.
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, defendant- appellant, appeals from the judgment of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, General Division, Case No. CV-290140, in which the...
Markle v. Cement Transit Company - 9/18/1997
JUDGMENT AFFIRMED IN PART, REVERSED AND REMANDED IN PART.
Appellant, Joel E. Markle ("Markle"), appeals the grant of summary judgment to the appellee, Cement Transit Company, Inc., ("CTC"). For the following reasons, we reverse...
Wuertz v. Soltis - 9/18/1997
JUDGMENT AFFIRMED IN PART AND REVERSED IN PART.
Appellant June Wuertz, administratrix of the estate of Kathleen Zeleznik, appeals the grant of summary judgment for appellees, Brian, Cynthia, Kenneth, and Scott Hocevar and...
Weimer v. Anzevino - 9/15/1997
WAITE, Judge.
On June 17, 1992 the parties herein were involved in an automobile accident when the automobile operated by appellee Anthony Anzevino struck the automobile owned by Donna Weimer, appellant herein, but operated by...
Levine v. Gross - 9/10/1997
EDWARD J. MAHONEY, Judge.
This appeal is from a summary judgment granted in the common pleas court wherein the trial court held that appellant Jay Levine had assumed the risk of eye injuries he received while "sparring" and...
Laderer v. St. Rita's Med. Ctr. - 9/9/1997
THOMAS F. BRYANT, Judge.
This appeal is taken by plaintiff-appellant, Laurine (Stevens) Laderer from the judgment entered on a jury verdict for defendant-appellee, St. Rita's Medical Center. Appellant also appeals from the...
Koslen v. American Red Cross - 9/4/1997
JUDGMENT: AFFIRMED.
Appellants, Laura and Jack Koslen, are appealing the trial court's dismissal of their action against appellees, Drs. Elliot Dickman and Martin Schneider and the American Red Cross. The suit was dismissed as...
Lovejoy v. Macek - 9/2/1997
CHRISTLEY, Presiding Judge.
This is an accelerated calendar case. Appellant, Kennard R. Lovejoy, appeals the decision of the Lake County Court of Common Pleas denying appellant's motion for reconsideration of the trial court's...
Estate of Carlson v. Tippett - 9/2/1997
FORD, Presiding Judge.
This is an accelerated calendar appeal from the Lake County Court of Common Pleas. Appellants, the estate of Karen L. Carlson and its administrator, Richard L. Jenkins, appeal from the trial court's...
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