PINZONE PRESENTATION ADDRESSES FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS

July 2026 In May 2026, Managing Partner John Pinzone served as a panelist on a three‑member team of legal experts presenting Digital Dialogue and Disputes: Understanding First Amendment Risks. The program, delivered to a client group…

MRR Law Secures Supreme Court of Ohio Reversal Upholding Immunity for City of Berea

July 2026 / by Frank Scialdone The Supreme Court of Ohio has reversed a lower-court decision that denied immunity to a public entity, ruling that placing a functional, non‑defective bench with extended legs in a locker room does not constitute…

New Ohio Supreme Court Ruling Returns Protections to Insurance Carriers in Bad Faith Lawsuits

March 2026 / by Elaine Souder While bad faith claims in Ohio are not new to Ohio insurance carriers or to carriers writing business in Ohio, the Ohio Supreme Court’s February 26, 2026 decision in Eddy v. Farmer’s Property Cas. Ins. Co.,…

In Respectful Memory of Edward M. Ryder

With great sadness, MRR Law mourns the passing of founding partner Edward M. Ryder, who lost a long and courageous battle with cancer this April. Mr. Ryder joined forces with Thomas S. Mazanec and Todd M. Raskin to form Mazanec, Raskin…

COMING TO A JAIL NEAR YOU – MEDICATIONS FOR OPIOID USE DISORDER

June 2023 / by John T. McLandrich. County jails, and County health districts that supply medical care to jails, and interested others should take note that the U.S. Department of Justice has this issue on its agenda and is championing…

United States Supreme Court’s New Open Door Policy for Federal Taking Claims

May 2023 / by John D. Pinzone / taken from Your House Counsel, Insurance & Corporate Liability Defense Reporter – Central Regional Edition  A property owner’s right to use his or her real property in a lawful manner has been a cornerstone…

Court Rules in Favor of Insurance Agencies After Barge Accident

By Frank H. Scialdone. In the recent case of City of East Liverpool v. Owners Insurance Company, et al., 7th Dist. Columbiana No. 20 CO 0009, MRR Attorneys Joseph F. Nicholas, Jr., Frank H. Scialdone, George V. Pilat, and Michael P. Byrne…

Insurance Coverage; COVID-19 Business Interruption Claims; Interpretation and Application of the “Virus Exclusion”

By Joseph F. Nicholas, Jr. Throughout the country and due to the impacts of the current COVID-19 pandemic, business owners are presenting business interruption claims to their commercial insurance carriers. With fair regularity, insurers…

H.B. 352 Clarifies and Modifies Ohio’s Employment Discrimination Statutes

On January 12, 2021, Governor DeWine signed into law H.B. 352 (the “Employment Law Uniformity Act”) which makes overdue changes and provides long-awaited clarifications to Ohio’s employment discrimination statutes. Subject to two exceptions…

COVID-19 / Immunity; Civil Liability Relief for Ohio Businesses and Others

Ohio H.B. 606 became law effective September 14, 2020. Equally important, the new law’s protections have been made retroactive to March 9, 2020 - the date of Governor Mike DeWine’s first Executive Order relating to the pandemic. The law…