Attorneys: High Court's Tort Rulings End of Long Fight

By Bill Kidd, Central Bureau ChiefAttorneys for claimants and employers agree that two recent Ohio Supreme Court decisions uphold the latest effort by state lawmakers to narrow the circumstances under which workers can sue their insured employers for damages outside the workers' comp system.But that’s about all they agree on.While some claimants attorneys say the high court's March 23 rulings in Kaminski v. Metal & Wire Products and Stetter et al. v. R.J. Corman Derailment Services were overly harsh, an attorney who filed a brief on behalf of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce in t...