Case ID: ohio-st-3d_83/html/0360-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Alice Robie Resnick, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State ex rel. Humphrey, Appellant, v. Industrial Commission of Ohio, Appellee.
    [Cite as State ex rel. Humphrey v. Indus. Comm. (1998), 83 Ohio St.3d 360.]
    (No. 97-1531
    Submitted August 19, 1998
    Decided October 14, 1998.)
    
      Law Offices of Larry Hotchkiss and Scott A. Bravi, for appellant.
    
      Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, and Michael A. Vanderhorst, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
   The judgment of the court of appeals is affirmed consistent with the opinion of the court of appeals.

F.E. Sweeney, Pfeifer, Cook and Lundberg Stratton, JJ., concur.

Moyer, C.J., Douglas and Resnick, JJ., dissent.

Alice Robie Resnick, J.,

dissenting. I would reverse the judgment of the court of appeals and return the cause to the Industrial Commission to consider the report of bureau vocational specialist Rod Metcalf. The commission’s order lists reports reviewed and evaluated, but omits mention of the Metcalf report. I disagree with the court of appeals’ finding that the commission satisfied the requirement that it indicate consideration of the Metcalf report because another vocational report makes several references to it. It is the commission’s duty to evaluate all the evidence, and it may not delegate that responsibility. See State ex rel. Hayes v. Indus. Comm. (1997), 78 Ohio St.3d 572, 577, 679 N.E.2d 295, 299; State ex rel. Fultz v. Indus. Comm. (1994), 69 Ohio St.3d 327, 631 N.E.2d 1057.

Moyer, C.J., and Douglas, J., concur in the foregoing dissenting opinion.