Pierce v. Trimble

Fain, Judge.

Defendant-appellant, Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc., appeals from the judgment of the trial court in which the jury found that plaintiff-appellee, Brenda A. Pierce, contracted a compensable nonscheduled occupational disease, known as “overuse syndrome,” in the course of her employment with Siemens. Siemens argues that the trial court erred when it denied Siemens’s motions for directed verdict because overuse syndrome does not meet the statutory definition of a “compensable nonscheduled disease” under R.C. 4123.68 and, thus, that the judgment is contrary to law. We overrule…