Split Ohio High Court Won’t Intervene in Uber, Lyft Lawsuit

A divided Ohio Supreme Court declined Wednesday to answer a certified question on whether the state’s product liability law bars personal-injury claims arising from mobile phone apps.

The 4-3 decision means a Cleveland federal judge won’t get the clarification he sought in a case stemming from a 2019 highway crash in which a driver for Lyft and Uber was switching between both services’ mobile apps when she rear-ended another car. Judge J. Philip Calabrese of the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio said in July, when he sent the question to the state Supreme Court, that ...