VAN FOSSEN v. BABCOCK & WILCOX CO.

No. 87-624.

36 Ohio St. 3d 100 (1988)

VAN FOSSEN ET AL., APPELLEES, v. BABCOCK & WILCOX COMPANY, APPELLANT, ET AL.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided April 13, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scanlon & Gearinger Co., L.P.A., James A. Rudgers and Terence E. Scanlon, for appellees.

Roetzel & Andress and George W. Rooney, Jr., for appellants.

Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease, Robin R. Obetz and Bruce L. Ingram, urging reversal for amicus curiae, Ohio Self Insurers Assn.


HOLMES, J.

At the outset, we observe that this case presents two issues concerning actions by employees against their employers grounded upon an alleged intentional tort: first, whether the recently enacted provisions of R.C. 4121.80, placing various conditions upon all employer-employee intentional tort actions, may be applied retrospectively to cases awaiting decision in a court of appeals on the effective date of that statute; and second, whether summary judgment...

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