Post-Judgment Interest Accrues at Clerk's Journal Entry, Not Electronic Filing Date

CLEVELAND - Post-judgment interest following the entry of an asbestos verdict should be calculated from the date the trial court clerk records journalizes the judgment, rather than from the date that the event was recorded in an electronic docket, an Ohio appeals court has ruled. Shesler, et al. v. Consolidated Rail Corp., et al., No. 83656 (Ohio Ct. App., Eighth Dist.).

In a decision reversing a trial court's award of pre-judgment interest accruing from the date the judgment was entered on the electronic CLAD system, the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals ruled that an entry of judgment on an …