Omni-Food & Fashion, Inc. v. Smith

In Skidmore & Hall, supra, this court adopted the “discovery rule” for determining the accrual date for legal malpractice actions to the exclusion of any other standard. However, based on the logic, reasoning and fairness inherent in our recent pronouncement in Frysinger v. Leech (1987), 32 Ohio St. 3d 38, 512 N.E. 2d 337, which modified the accrual date of the statute of limitations set forth in R.C. 2305.11(A) for medical malpractice claims, this court is of the opinion that a similar modified rule should be established for claims sounding in legal malpractice.

R.C. 2305.11(A) states in…