Forster v. Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation

Defendant-appellant, Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (“the bureau”), appeals the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court’s denial of its motion for summary judgment and the court’s subsequent finding that plaintiff-appellee Vincent Forster’s cause of action was timely filed.

On October 8, 1988, appellee was working for defendant Reliance Electric Company at a downtown Cleveland construction site, the British Petroleum Building. While he was in the course and scope of his employment, a piece of concrete fell from the fifth floor, striking appellee on the head and causing him to fall down. Appellee…