Ohio’s parental liability statute, R.C. 3109.10, provides “[a]ny person is entitled to maintain an action to recover compensatory damages in a civil action . . . from the parent of a child under the age of eighteen if the child willfully and maliciously assaults the person by a means or force likely to produce great bodily harm.”
Ohio school injury attorney, Scott Kuboff, discusses the parental liability statute and the nature of the claim:
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