Ellis v. Buehrer

Citations

• 2017 Ohio 5516

Syllabus

COLLATERAL ESTOPPEL - WORKERS' COMPENSATION: In a case for workers' compensation benefits, the trial court did not err in granting summary judgment in favor of the employer and the Administrator based on collateral estoppel where the issue of the decedent's cause of death had been fully and fairly litigated in a prior R.C. 313.19 proceeding. [See CONCURRENCE: The trial court correctly granted summary judgment in favor of the employer and the Administrator on the basis of collateral estoppel where the issue of whether the decedent's workplace injury had contributed to his death had been decided in a prior proceeding.]