Ohio Supreme Court rules in case of throat injury from bone found in boneless wing

The state’s highest court has delivered a ruling in what may be one of its most unusual cases.

According to court documents, the Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that patrons can reasonably expect to encounter pieces of chicken bones in orders of boneless wings.

This means the court has ruled that Michael Beckheimer’s 2017 lawsuit—regarding an esophagus injury he allegedly incurred in 2016 from a piece of bone found in his boneless wings at a Hamilton, Ohio eatery—was rightfully dismissed in lower courts.

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The lawsuit claimed the sellers were liable for an injury caused to Beckheimer after he swallowed a 1 ⅜-inch

sliver of bone found in a boneless wing.

The court’s decision was 4-3.

Justice Joseph T. Deters, writing for the court majority, claimed that boneless wings are a “cooking style,” and the term is not a guarantee that bone fragments will not be present in the dish.

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