Ohio Panel: Court’s Entry In Discovery Dispute Over Claims File Is ‘Problematic’

(December 14, 2022, 10:26 AM EST) -- AKRON, Ohio — An Ohio appeals court held that a lower court failed to cite any authority or explain why insureds’ counsel should have any access to their insurer’s claims file after holding in the same order that the documents are not discoverable, reversing and remanding a lower court’s discovery ruling in a coverage dispute arising from an underlying wrongful death lawsuit....