Sexual harassment may plague the restaurant industry more than any other.1 Habitual harassment of service workers can occur by supervisors, co-workers, and customers. Complaints by servers to their managers, reporting a customer’s inappropriate behavior, can often be tossed to the side as the well-known slogan “the customer’s always right” forces the server to tolerate the […]
Recovery of Damages in Ohio Tort Cases
Recovery of damages (money) is what most people seek when they initiate a civil law suit based in tort. In the American court system, the most typical award of damages is called compensatory, which are granted to restore the plaintiff to the position he or she was in before the injury occurred. Additionally, each party […]
Willful And Malicious Misappropriation
Ohio recognizes the tort of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets, which occurs when someone with a duty to maintain secrecy discloses trade secret information to a third party.1 A trade secret can include a business’s list of client names and contact information, formulas, methods, programs, or other types of information that gives a company an economic […]