Argued, defended and prosecuted force majeure and breach of contract cases on behalf of coal suppliers.

I am regularly involved in commercial foreclosures throughout Ohio on behalf of numerous commercial interests.

I have overseen multiple commercial receivership filings on behalf of clients with liens/mortgages on commercial, income-producing property.

We provide clearance review, strategic counsel and litigation counsel to an international online retail that sources and manufacturers products overseas for online retail sale to customers in North America and Europe. The business began as a small retailer on ebay and has grown into a multi-million company. We provide clearance for patent and trademarks, register trademarks, file patents and provide counsel on litigation matters as well.

The plaintiff alleged that his house caught fire and sustained significant damage due to a fire that originated in a toaster that was manufactured by our client. Due to a lack of supporting physical evidence, the case was voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiff.

The plaintiff was injured when he ran his fishing boat onto the shore of a river. He sustained head injuries and his passenger was ejected. The plaintiff alleged that the boat’s steering cable failed causing him to lose control of the boat. After discovery and motion practice, we successfully negotiated a settlement for our client shortly before trial.

A fire in an apartment complex that resulted in multiple deaths allegedly started when a Christmas tree caught fire. The plaintiffs alleged that the lights on the tree were defective and that this defect caused the fire. The plaintiffs had purchased lights from several retailers over the years and filed suit against all of them. Because the plaintiffs could not show where the allegedly defective lights were purchased, the court granted summary judgment to our clients. The Kentucky Court of Appeals affirmed.

When a newspaper was denied access to records from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services relating to a case involving the death of a toddler, they turned to Dinsmore. The paper requested records from the Cabinet following the death of a 20-month old toddler, whose mother had been under investigation by the Cabinet. The Cabinet denied the requests, citing confidentiality provisions of HIPAA and personal privacy exemptions in the Kentucky Revised Statutes (KRS) Open Records Act. The Attorney General had previously upheld the Cabinet’s decision to withhold the records from another newspaper, and that case was headed to the Franklin Circuit Court on appeal. We moved to intervene in the circuit court action, and the motion was granted. The circuit court found that the Cabinet was obligated to provide the records, and had violated the Open Records Act because the state laws cited by the Cabinet did not forbid disclosure of the records. The Court also ruled that attorney’s fees and costs were to be awarded to the newspaper, citing another part of Kentucky’s open records law that says, “Any person who prevails against any agency in any action in the courts regarding a willful violation of [the Kentucky Open Records Law]…may be awarded costs, including reasonable attorney’s fees incurred in connection with the legal action.” The circuit court’s ruling was affirmed by the Kentucky Court of Appeals. This ruling results in not only financial savings for the client, but also establishes clear precedent for asserting that governmental agencies may be responsible for a private litigant’s attorney’s fees when successful in seeking to open government records for public review.

Our firm defended Lear against claims that it had failed to pay $2.5 million owed to the plaintiffs for repairs they allegedly completed and parts they allegedly supplied on Lear's behalf to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Royal Saudi Air Force for F-5 aircraft and J-785 engines under certain U.S. defense contracts. A favorable settlement was reached prior to trial.

Three Ohio AIDS patients filed a lawsuit against the director of the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) to prevent enforcement of proposed rules that would arbitrarily deny funding for potentially life-saving medications to Ohio residents infected with HIV or suffering from AIDS-related symptoms. Defendants claimed that ODH failed to follow statutory rule-making process and the proposed rules were unenforceable. Court agreed that public interest would be served by protecting the right of a public hearing, and issued preliminary injunction preventing ODH from implementing new rules pending resolution of the lawsuit.

Mr. O'Neil and Ms. Bentz represented a hospital before the West Virginia Health Care Cost Review Authority, the Office of Judges, the Circuit Court of Marion County, and the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals in the successful prosecution of the hospital's application for a certificate of need to develop a $285,000,000 replacement hospital.

Defended firearm manufacturers against design defect allegations.

Represented franchisors and franchisees in multiple business/franchise-related disputes, and acted as counsel on franchise litigation, arbitration and mediation.

The plaintiffs alleged that they suffered carbon monoxide poisoning as a result of a CO leak in their furnace. After testing of the furnace by the experts found no leak in the unit and no defect, we successfully negotiated a settlement.