The Ohio Supreme Court was faced with an appellate court decision upholding the Industrial Commission’s award of permanent partial disability to a claimant who had previously […]
The Ohio Supreme Court was again asked to clarify when the doctrine of voluntary abandonment bars the receipt of temporary total disability compensation in a workers’ […]
A recent decision from the Eighth District Court of Appeals again emphasizes that merely because an employee is at work and suffers an injury or illness […]
Employers should be mindful in Ohio that the employer/employee relationship exposes them to many different risks. For instance, in the recent case of Tchankpa v. Ascena […]
Just 10 days prior to the implementation date, a Texas federal judge issued a nationwide injunction halting the Department of Labor’s (DOL) new federal overtime rule, […]
Ohio Revised Code section 4123.90 prohibits employers from taking adverse employment action against an employee because he or she “filed a claim or instituted, pursued or […]
Just because a claimant obtains allowance of a new condition in his or her workers’ compensation claim, and undergoes further treatment such as surgery for that […]
