Litigation: Workers’ Compensation/Intentional Tort

The firm has extensive experience and expertise in representing employers in the following matters relating to workplace injuries:

  • R.C. 4123.512 court appeals, litigating the compensability of claims.;
  • Appeals to appellate courts, including the Supreme Court of Ohio, from lower court decisions;
  • Mandamus actions challenging Industrial Commission orders deciding such matters as permanent total disability compensation, violation of specific safety requirements, payment of temporary total disability compensation and all other issues dealing with the extent of an injured worker’s disability;
  • Intentional tort actions; and Subrogation claims.


  • Litigation: Employment Law

    The firm has extensive experience and expertise in representing employers in the following types of litigation:

  • Discrimination and Civil Rights Litigation
    • Fair Employment Practices (Title VII, age, race, sex, etc.)
    • Harassment Claims (especially sexual and racial harassment)
    • The Americans with Disabilities Act and related Ohio statutes
  • The Family and Medical Leave Act
  • Wrongful Discharge and Public Policy Torts
  • Retaliatory Discharge
  • Enforcement of Employment Agreements
    • Covenants not to compete
    • Trade secret protection
    • Non-solicitation agreements
  • General Employment Law Litigation

    Litigation: General Civil and Commercial


    Bugbee & Conkle, LLP has extensive experience in representing clients in a wide variety of general civil and commercial litigation in Ohio and federal courts. The types of cases the firm has successfully litigated include:

  • Liens and construction contract claims involving the establishment, maintenance and expansion of manufacturing facilities for major corporations;
  • Contract disputes involving custom, state-of-the-art, computerized inspection equipment for manufacturing facilities;
  • Claims by and against businesses to recover insurance proceeds for losses resulting from explosions, fire damage and other property destruction.
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