Last month, the OMA’s Lindsey Short, who also chairs the Ohio Alliance for Civil Justice, along with Tiger Joyce, president of the American Tort Reform Association co-authored an op-ed in the Cleveland Plain Dealer praising the 2024 Ohio Supreme Court decision that public nuisance law does not apply to product liability.

In the piece, Short and Joyce point out that profit-motivated trial lawyers have pushed to expand laws originally intended to address issues involving land use and public spaces into various industries, including pharmaceuticals, PFAS, vaping, and even climate change, creating a legal free-for-all ultimately benefiting only themselves. 2/12/2025