Hamilton County — Cincinnati — carried the machine-tool works, the GE Evendale jet-engine plant, and the Procter & Gamble chemical operations, alongside the river industry of the West Side. These were reportedly among the most asbestos-intensive worksites in the tri-state.
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).