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When a workers’ compensation dispute moves to a legal hearing, employers may feel unsure about what to do next. In Ohio, the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) handles the initial claim paperwork. However, a different agency hears formal disputes: the Industrial...
Managing workers’ compensation claims is stressful for any business. Nevertheless, employers must continue to do their due diligence in claims investigation, especially when the injury seems unusual. Employers must investigate claims thoroughly and involve all...
Businesses in Ohio typically need to provide certain types of support for their workers. They need to provide workers with appropriate training and safety gear. They also have to provide support if employees get hurt on the job in many cases. In Ohio, all companies...
The idea that grounds workers' compensation coverage requirements is a good one. Ohio businesses can protect themselves from the possibility of financial liability for a worker's injury or illness by providing such coverage. Additionally, workers also benefit because...
Telephone hearings, are they here forever? Should some hearings always be telephonic? Experienced workers’ compensation lawyer Robert Solt, III discusses the advantages and disadvantages of Ohio workers’ compensation telephone hearings, as well as tips on how to be...
Telephone Hearings are so 2020. The Industrial Commission of Ohio plans to begin transitioning the hearing process from telephone hearings to web conferencing via the Webex platform by mid-April, 2021. Parties and representatives still will be able to attend hearings...
Yesterday, March 22, 2021, the Industrial Commission of Ohio conducted a special telephone meeting in which the use of Webex was discussed. Tom Connor, Director of Adjudications, stated that the Commission presently hears 3 hearings per hour for seven hours per day. He anticipates the move to Webex will take place in mid-April. Of note, the Commission has conducted telephone…
Shortly after the inception of the pandemic, Ohio state lawmakers got to work proposing legislation to cover coronavirus in the workplace. House Bills 571, 573, 605, 633, 667, and 668 propose amendments to the occupational disease provision of the workers’ compensation statute (4123.68) to include COVID-19 as a scheduled disease for first responders, essential workers, health care workers, grocery store…
Since the onset of the pandemic in the Spring of 2020, the Director of the Ohio Department of Health, through its orders, has encouraged employers to permit “as many employees as possible to work from home by implementing policies in areas such as teleworking and video conferencing.” As a consequence, many Ohioans have been working from home in accordance with…
On January 9, 2021, Governor Mike DeWine signed Ohio House Bill 308, which provides for compensation and benefits to public safety officers (a.k.a. “first responders”) who sustain a disability from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) received in the course of and arising out of employment, but without a physical injury. The new law also contains an anti-retaliation provision, which provides for…