Auto Recyclers of Middletown, Inc. v. Stein, L.L.C.

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 414

Syllabus

The trial court did not abuse its discretion in holding that appellants were precluded from presenting expert testimony due to their failure to disclose any expert reports as required by Civ.R. 26(B)(7) and the trial court's pretrial scheduling order. The \thousands of pages of documents\ appellants produced during discovery did not constitute an expert report. Summary judgment was appropriately rendered in appellees' favor on appellant's nuisance, negligence, tortious interference with business relationships, and trespass claims where appellants were precluded from presenting expert opinion to demonstrate to a reasonable degree of scientific probability that appellees steelmaking or slag-processing operations were the proximate cause of the fugitive dust and particulate matter they claimed harmed their businesses.