Vargo v. Travelers Insurance

This instant cause poses two questions for our consideration. The first question is whether R.C. 313.19 impermissibly denies civil litigants due process of law by requiring fact-finders to accept, as a matter of law, the coroner’s findings concerning the manner, mode and cause of death. The second issue is whether the ' trial court herein erred by permitting a medical expert to testify both beyond the scope of his expertise and with the aid of irrelevant statistical evidence.

As to the first question, appellee argues, and the court of appeals held, that R.C. 313.19 is constitutionally infirm…