Appellate Court Rules Intentional Tort Law Unconstitional

An Ohio appellate court ruled last week that the state's intentional workplace tort law violates the state constitution, a decision that - if upheld by the Supreme Court - will mark the third time that the courts have thrown out a statute on the subject.The Eighth Appellate District held that a statute passed in 2005 in an attempt to establish standards as to when injured workers can file civil suits was an attempt to govern intentional torts within the employment relationship, when such conduct "always takes place outside that relationship." "Second, the Legislature's latest effort to...