Price v. H&M Landscaping Co., Inc.

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 2521

Syllabus

Negligence; slip-and-fall; snow and ice removal; summary judgment; duty to exercise reasonable and ordinary care; duty to perform according to terms of contract; natural accumulation of snow and ice. The trial court's granting summary judgment to the defendant snow-and-ice-mitigation company was proper in this slip-and-fall negligence case. In a negligence claim, the duty owed by a snow-and-ice-mitigation company is to exercise reasonable and ordinary care and to perform according to the terms of the contract. Plaintiffs' expert report, which attempted to impose a heightened standard of care on defendant, is not well taken. Given the standard of care, plaintiffs failed to demonstrate a genuine issue of material fact for trial regarding whether defendant breached this standard.