Andrew Welsh Huggins

March 13, 2013 | Daily Report Online

A 16-year-old girl was "substantially impaired" after an alcohol-fueled party, was unable to consent to sex and suffered humiliation and degradation when she was raped by two high school football players, a prosecutor said Wednesday in her opening statement at the boys' trial.

By Andrew Welsh-Huggins

4 minute read

December 08, 2009 | Daily Report Online

LUCASVILLE, Ohio AP - Witnesses to the scheduled execution of a killer who scattered a woman's remains across two states could have an even more somber experience than those who watched previously when Ohio put nearly three dozen other inmates to death.Inmate Kenneth Biros, if executed as planned Tuesday morning, would become the first person in the U.

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS

5 minute read

December 28, 2011 | Daily Report Online

Girls seeking abortions in New Hampshire must first tell their parents or a judge, employers in Alabama must verify new workers' U.S. residency, and California students will be the first in the country to receive mandatory lessons about the contributions of gays and lesbians under the set of state laws set to take effect at the start of 2012.

By Andrew Welsh-Huggins

6 minute read

March 15, 2013 | Daily Report Online

A judge granted two teenagers immunity from prosecution Friday before they agreed to testify about the alleged sexual assault of a drunken 16-year-old girl after a party in eastern Ohio last summer.

By Andrew Welsh-Huggins

4 minute read

March 14, 2008 | Daily Report Online

COLUMBUS, Ohio AP - The financing company had what appeared to be an ideal business model: collecting on the accounts owed cash-starved health care providers in exchange for a fee.The plan made millionaires of several executives of National Century Financial Enterprises, once described as the nation's largest health care financing firm.

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS

5 minute read

March 27, 2008 | Daily Report Online

COLUMBUS, Ohio AP - A federal jury on Wednesday convicted the founder of a failed health care company of trying to bribe a witness in an upcoming $1.9 billion fraud trial.The jury took one day to deliver its decision against Lance Poulsen, former chief executive officer of National Century Financial Enterprises, described as the nation's largest health care financing firm before its 2002 bankruptcy.

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS

5 minute read

July 26, 2006 | Law.com

Hundreds of injured workers temporarily received less in state benefits than they deserved because of poor record-keeping at a scandal-plagued Ohio insurance fund, according to a memo released Monday. The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation reviewed 8,900 cases and found initially that as many as 1,500 workers needed to receive extra benefits because of the mistake, the memo said. The disclosure was the latest twist in the scandal surrounding the bureau.

By Andrew Welsh-Huggins

3 minute read

October 14, 2010 | Law.com

A blogger and a lawyer sued over comments they made in the case of a Muslim-to-Christian convert said in court filings Tuesday that their remarks and postings were constitutionally protected free speech. Ohio attorney Omar Tarazi said in his $10 million lawsuit that Atlas Shrugs blogger Pamela Geller and Florida attorney John Stemberger defamed him by alleging he has contacts with terrorists and criminals. Geller said many of the postings singled out in the defamation lawsuit could fall within the realm of hyperbole.

By Andrew Welsh-Huggins

3 minute read

January 12, 2006 | Law.com

In the first challenge of property rights laws to reach a state high court since the U.S. Supreme Court last summer allowed municipalities to seize homes for use by a private developer, two sides squared off in Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday. Property rights' advocates, business groups and backers of city planning are watching the Ohio case because of the precedent it could set as more than a dozen states consider bans against governments taking homes to boost economic development.

By Andrew Welsh-Huggins

4 minute read

April 16, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

A condemned Ohio inmate who says he's allergic to anesthesia is undertaking what appears to be a unique legal maneuver, arguing that no one knows how his body will react if state officials are allowed next week to inject him with the one lethal drug they now use.

By Andrew Welsh-Huggins

4 minute read