ACKISON v. ANCHOR PACKING CO.

Nos. 2007-0219 and 2007-0415.

120 Ohio St.3d 228 (2008)

2008-Ohio-5243

ACKISON, APPELLEE, ET AL., v. ANCHOR PACKING COMPANY ET AL., APPELLANTS.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided October 15, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Motley Rice, L.L.C., and John J. McConnell Jr.; Young, Reverman & Mazzei Co., L.P.A., Richard E. Reverman, and Kelly Thye, for appellee.

Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease, L.L.P., Richard D. Schuster, Nina I. Webb-Lawton, and Michael J. Hendershot, for appellants H.B. Fuller Co., Industrial Holdings Corp., Union Carbide Corp., Amchem Products, Inc. and Certainteed Corp.

Bunda, Stutz & DeWitt, P.L.L., and Rebecca C. Sechrist; Schiff Hardin, L.L.P., and Robert H. Riley, for appellant Owens-Illinois, Inc.

Gallagher Sharp, Kevin C. Alexandersen, John A. Valenti, Colleen A. Mountcastle, and Holly Olarczuk-Smith, for appellants Beazer East, Inc. and Ingersoll-Rand Co.

Blank Rome, L.L.P., Michael L. Cioffi, and William M. Huse, for appellant Honeywell International, Inc.

David L. Day, L.P.A., and David L. Day, for appellant John Crane, Inc.

Tucker, Ellis & West, L.L.P., Henry E. Billingsley II, Carter E. Strang, Rachel McQuade, and Halle M. Herbert, for appellants BOC Group, Inc., f.k.a. Airco, Inc., Hobart Brothers Co., and Lincoln Electric Co.

Oldham & Dowling and Reginald S. Kramer, for appellants General Electric Co. and CBS Corp., a Delaware corporation, f.k.a. Viacom, Inc., successor by merger to CBS Corp., a Pennsylvania corporation, f.k.a. Westinghouse Electric Corp.

Ulmer & Berne, L.L.P., Bruce P. Mandel, and Kurt S. Siegfried, for appellant Ohio Valley Insulating Co., Inc.

Eagen & Wykoff Co., L.P.A., Thomas L. Eagen Jr., and Christine Carey Steele, for appellant International Minerals and Chemical Corp. (Mallinckrodt).

Ulmer & Berne, L.L.P., Timothy M. Fox, Charles R. Janes, James N. Kline, Kurt S. Siegfried, Robert E. Zulandt III, and Sally A. Jamieson, for appellant Georgia-Pacific L.L.C., f.k.a. Georgia-Pacific Corp.

Stewart Jaffy & Associates Co., L.P.A., Stewart R. Jaffy, and Marc J. Jaffy, urging affirmance for amicus curiae Ohio AFL-CIO.

Brickler & Eckler, L.L.P., Kurtis A. Tunnell, and Anne Marie Sferra, urging reversal for amici curiae Ohio Manufacturers' Association, National Federation of Independent Business/Ohio, Ohio Chamber of Commerce, Ohio Alliance for Civil Justice, and Ohio Chemistry Technology Council.

Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P., Victor E. Schwartz, Mark A. Behrens, and Christopher E. Appel, urging reversal for amici curiae American Insurance Association, National Federal of Independent Business Legal Foundation, Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, National Association of Manufacturers, National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, and American Chemistry Council.


CUPP, J.

{¶ 1} In this appeal, we conclude that requirements in R.C. 2307.91, 2307.92, and 2307.93 pertaining to asbestos-exposure claims are remedial and procedural and may be applied without offending the Retroactivity Clause of the Ohio Constitution to cases pending on September 2, 2004.

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{¶ 2} In May 2004, Linda Ackison, widow and administrator...

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