Rericha v. Dept. of Rehab & Corr.

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 1793

Syllabus

On defendants' appeal from court of claims trial verdict for plaintiffs. Trial court did not err in affirming magistrate's decision and finding that plaintiff's injuries from two separate auto accidents were not divisible, where the defendants failed to present any expert medical evidence supporting their theory of divisibility and apportionment; trial court did not abuse its discretion in declining to find that defendants' accident reconstruction expert was competent to opine on divisibility of plaintiff's bodily injuries; trial court did not err by concluding that defendants had failed to meet their burden to establish an intervening and superseding cause of plaintiff's bodily injuries; trial court did not err in its application of rule of damages governing plaintiff's preexisting injuries; trial court did not err in application of joint and several liability to defendants. Defendants' six assignments of error overruled and judgment affirmed.