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Business groups back codifying Ohio Supreme Court reading of product-based public-nuisance claims into statute
Summary
Business groups urged the House Judiciary Committee to pass House Bill 126, which would codify a recent Ohio Supreme Court interpretation that product-based public-nuisance claims are governed by the Ohio Product Liability Act rather than by common-law public-nuisance theories.
Trade groups and business advocates told the Ohio House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that House Bill 126 would clarify — and codify — the Ohio Supreme Court’s interpretation that product-based public-nuisance claims must be handled under the Ohio Product Liability Act, rather than as free-standing common-law public-nuisance theories.
Tony Long of the Ohio Alliance for Civil…
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