Ashtabula County carried the chemical plants and the Lake Erie ore-and-coal docks of Ashtabula Harbor, work that reportedly brought asbestos exposure to its trades throughout the twentieth century.
Ohio asbestos cases are filed in the Court of Common Pleas of the county of proper venue — there is no single statewide asbestos court, though Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) has historically carried Ohio’s largest asbestos docket. Ohio allows two years from a mesothelioma or asbestos-cancer diagnosis to file (Ohio Rev. Code § 2305.10), and two years from the date of death for a wrongful-death claim (§ 2125.02).