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Ohio Employers To Get $1.5 Billion Rebate In Workers’ Comp Premiums

Ohio’s public and private employers stand to get back nearly all of the workers’ compensation premiums that they have paid in the past year. The state on Monday proposed a $1.5 billion rebate in workers’ compensation premiums, the...

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Ohio law firm challenges BWC’s privacy statute

An Ohio law firm, Bevan & Associates, is challenging Ohio’s statute that makes injured workers’ personal information private.  Previously, the names, claim numbers and addresses of injured workers were available to the public via...

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Governor Kasich signs Michael Louis Palumbo Jr. Act

Governor Kasich recently signed the Michael Louis Palumbo Jr. Act.  This act creates a rebuttable presumption that a firefighter who develops cancer did so while in the course and scope of and arising out of employment.   To read more...

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Ohio BWC Enacts New Lumbar Fusion Surgery Rule

The Ohio Administrative Code has been amended to include a new rule governing lumbar fusion surgeries under Ohio workers’ compensation claims.  O.A.C. 4123-6-32 requires numerous criteria to be met prior to a fusion surgery being eligible...

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Ohio BWC to give $1.5 billion back to employers.

The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation recently approved a 1.5 billion dollar rebate to Ohio employers.  The Ohio BWC is doing so despite Ohio BWC service offices being understaffed and overworked.  For a link to the article click...

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Ohio Supreme Court denies right to permanent partial disability to injured worker receiving permanent and total disability.

In State ex rel. Ohio Presbyterian Retirement Services, Inc. v. Indus. Comm., 2017-Ohio-7577 the Ohio Supreme Court held: “When an injured employee has previously been determined to be entitled to permanent-total-disability compensation...

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Statute of Limitations to File Claims Reduced to 1 year

Governor Kasich has signed House Bill 27.  Among other changes to Ohio workers’ compensation law, the statute of limitations to file a workers compensation claim has been reduced to one year.  Previously, the statute of limitations...

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