Wedge Products, Inc. v. Hartford Equity Sales Co.

The threshold issue presented by this appeal is whether Hartford’s insurance policy provides coverage for the claims asserted against Wedge by its employees. For the reasons that follow, we find that there is no coverage.

In Blankenship v. Cincinnati Milacron Chemicals (1982), 69 Ohio St. 2d 608, 23 O.O. 3d 504, 433 N.E. 2d 572, we held that neither the Ohio Constitution nor the workers’ compensation laws preclude an employee from enforcing common-law remedies against his employer for an intentional tort. In Jones v. VIP Development Co. (1984), 15 Ohio St. 3d 90, 15 OBR 246, 472 N.E. 2d 1046,…