Ohio Chiropractors Lose Fight Against Direct Solicitation Rule

An Ohio law that prohibits health-care providers from directly soliciting car accident or crime victims by anything other that mail for 30 days following the incident is a valid regulation of commercial speech, the Sixth Circuit said.

The law directly advances Ohio’s substantial interest in protecting victims’ privacy by limiting intrusions by health-care providers, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said.

Additionally, the law is narrowly tailored to meet that goal, because it restricts only in-person, telephonic, and electronic solicitations, the Sixth Circuit said. It doesn’t prohibit television or billboard advertising, and it lifts even those restrictions ...