Case Title: State ex rel. Foley v. Vulcan Mfg. Co.

Citation: 1998-Ohio-308

Docket Number: 19972064

State: ohio

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

Date: 1998-12-02T00:00:00Z

Document:
THE STATE EX REL. FOLEY v. VULCAN MANUFACTURING COMPANY ET AL. 
[Cite as State ex rel. Foley v. Vulcan Mfg. Co. (1998), 84 Ohio St.3d 59.] 
Mandamus to compel Industrial Commission to grant relator’s application for 
permanent total disability compensation — Writ denied, when. 
(No. 97-2064 — Submitted September 15, 1998 — Decided December 2, 
1998.) 
IN MANDAMUS. 
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Butkovich, Schimpf, Schimpf, & Ginocchio Co., L.P.A., James A. Whittaker 
and Stephen P. Gast, for relator. 
 
Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, and Julie M. Lynch, Assistant 
Attorney General, for respondents Industrial Commission and Administrator, 
Bureau of Workers’ Compensation. 
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Per Curiam.  Relator, C.L. Foley, seeks a writ of mandamus ordering 
respondent Industrial Commission of Ohio to grant his application for permanent 
total disability compensation (“PTD”).  He insists that the commission 
impermissibly denied him PTD based on the opinions of two doctors who failed to 
consider all his allowed conditions before they pronounced him able to work.  
Upon review of the doctors’ reports, we agree with the commission that neither 
doctor ignored the two conditions Foley cites, “major depression” and 
“aggravation of pre-existing degenerative arthritis of the low back,” that were 
allowed in 1990.  The doctors instead determined that, as of their examinations in 
1992, they could not find symptoms of one or the other condition.  Their reports 
constitute some evidence on which the commission could rely in denying PTD.  
 
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Accordingly, we cannot disturb the commission’s decision.  State ex rel. Burley v. 
Coil Packing, Inc. (1987), 31 Ohio St.3d 18, 31 OBR 70, 508 N.E.2d 936. 
 
The writ of mandamus is denied. 
Writ denied. 
 
MOYER, C.J., PFEIFER, COOK and LUNDBERG STRATTON, JJ., concur. 
 
DOUGLAS, J., dissents. 
 
RESNICK and F.E. SWEENEY, JJ., dissent and would grant the writ.