Stewart Jaffy Honored

The Ohio Academy of Trial lawyers during its annual Convention in April 1996 honored Stewart Jaffy by electing him to the Workers' Compensation Hall of Fame.

Stewart Jaffy had previously served on the Industrial Commission Advisory Commission and a Legislative Select Committee on Workers' Compensation as well as the Industrial Commission Nominating Commission, the Labor-management-government Rehabilitation Advisory Committee and the Self-Insured Evaluation Board.

Mr. Jaffy is best known for his participation in briefing and arguing workers' compensation cases before the Ohio Supreme Court which have set major precedent in workers' compensation such as Ramirez, Village, Crabtree, Kinney, Collingsworth and Ohio AFL-CIO v. Voinovich. He has now participated in over one hundred cases in the Ohio Supreme Court.