Comp Claim Filed a Year After Just-Timely Products Suit Barred by Statute of Limitations, Court Holds

CLEVELAND - A former foundry worker who waited longer than two years from the date he was told he had asbestosis to file a workers' comp claim can't claim the filing was timely when he had one year earlier filed a products liability claim for the same injury, just within the two-year limitations period. Davis v. Taylor & Bogus Foundry, et al., No. 81324 (Ohio App. Ct., Eighth Dist.).

In a decision affirming dismissal of the workers' comp claim, the Eighth District Ohio Court of Appeals said April 10 that the basis for plaintiff Joseph Davis' claims - an X-ray …