Toledo is the Glass City — Owens-Illinois, Owens Corning, and Libbey-Owens-Ford built the modern glass industry here, and the Maumee River carried the Jeep works and the refineries that fed them. Glassmaking and refining are high-heat trades, and for most of the century they reportedly ran on asbestos insulation, block, and refractory.
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).