Cuyahoga County is the industrial core of the metro — the Cleveland steel mills of the Flats, the lakefront docks, and the foundries and machine shops of Cleveland, Euclid, and the river towns. These were among the most asbestos-intensive worksites in the state, and the county has historically carried Ohio’s largest asbestos docket.
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).