Types of Wrongful Death Cases
Every loss is different. Each page explains how Ohio law treats that kind of case, what evidence matters, and what a family can recover.
Car crashes
When a car crash takes someone you love in Ohio: what the investigation must capture, who may be responsible, what insurance applies, and the two-year deadline.
Learn more →Truck crashes
After a fatal truck crash in Ohio: federal safety rules, the records trucking companies may discard, who may be responsible, and the insurance that may apply.
Learn more →Motorcycle crashes
When a rider dies in an Ohio motorcycle crash: left-turn rules, what Ohio's helmet law says about civil cases, the insurance that may apply, and the deadline.
Learn more →Pedestrians and cyclists
When a driver kills someone walking or riding a bicycle in Ohio: right-of-way rules, hit-and-run coverage, who may be responsible, and the two-year deadline.
Learn more →Drunk and impaired drivers
When an impaired driver kills someone you love in Ohio: punitive damages, Ohio's dram shop and social host rules, the criminal case, and the two-year deadline.
Learn more →Medical negligence
When medical negligence takes a loved one in Ohio: how claims are investigated, the affidavit of merit, the deadlines, the four-year repose rule, and damages.
Learn more →Nursing home neglect
When neglect in an Ohio nursing home or assisted living facility leads to a death: residents' rights, arbitration papers, deadlines, and what families recover.
Learn more →Workplace deaths
When a worker dies on the job in Ohio: workers' compensation death benefits, the employer intentional tort law, claims against other companies, and deadlines.
Learn more →Defective products
When a defective vehicle, machine, drug, or household product causes a death in Ohio: the Products Liability Act, the ten-year rule, evidence, and damages.
Learn more →Unsafe property and security
When a death happens on someone else's property in Ohio: falls, shootings, pool drownings, and fires. What owners owe visitors, the evidence, and deadlines.
Learn more →Government, police and jail deaths
When a city, county, state agency, police officer, or jail is involved in a death in Ohio: immunity, the Court of Claims, and federal civil rights claims.
Learn more →The death of a child
For Ohio parents after the death of a child: crashes, drownings, unsafe products, daycare and school deaths, what the law presumes, and limits on suing schools.
Learn more →Not sure where your family's situation fits? Tell us what happened, or start with how Ohio wrongful death law works.
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