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Court: OSU Partially Liable For Man's Traffic Death

Ohio State University

The Ohio Court of Claims says Ohio State University is partially liable in the death of a Cleveland man run over by a medical professor driving to a work-related conference. The court says the university must pay a third of the damages assessed in a September 2010 incident in which Rolf Barth, a professor emeritus of pathology at Ohio State's College of Medicine, struck and killed Junior Lee Lane on Interstate 71 in Cuyahoga County. Barth was driving to a conference at the Cleveland Clinic. The court says Barth was listening to "loud Russian martial music" and didn't realize Lane was standing on the highway trying to help another motorist. Damages have yet to be determined.

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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