Title: Ohio Bur. of Workers' Comp. v. Etheridge

State: ohio

Issuer: Ohio Supreme Court

Document:

OPINIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT OF OHIO                               
    The full texts of the opinions of the Supreme Court of Ohio                  
are being transmitted electronically beginning May 27, 1992,                     
pursuant to a pilot project implemented by Chief Justice Thomas                  
J. Moyer.                                                                        
    Please call any errors to the attention of the Reporter's                    
Office of the Supreme Court of Ohio.  Attention:  Walter S.                      
Kobalka, Reporter, or Deborah J. Barrett, Administrative                         
Assistant.  Tel.:  (614) 466-4961; in Ohio 1-800-826-9010.                       
Your comments on this pilot project are also welcome.                            
    NOTE:  Corrections may be made by the Supreme Court to the                   
full texts of the opinions after they have been released                         
electronically to the public.  The reader is therefore advised                   
to check the bound volumes of Ohio St.3d published by West                       
Publishing Company for the final versions of these opinions.                     
The advance sheets to Ohio St.3d will also contain the volume                    
and page numbers where the opinions will be found in the bound                   
volumes of the Ohio Official Reports.                                            
                                                                                 
Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation, Appellee, v. Etheridge,                    
Appellant.                                                                       
[Cite as Ohio Bur. of Workers' Comp. v. Etheridge (1995),                        
Ohio St.3d    .]                                                                 
Workers' compensation -- R.C. 4123.57(B)(now[A]) -- Prospective                  
    application to claims arising after October 1, 1963 is                       
    constitutional.                                                              
    (No. 93-2432 -- Submitted April 18, 1995 -- Decided June                     
14, 1995.)                                                                       
    Appeal from the Court of Appeals for Cuyahoga County, No.                    
63692.                                                                           
                                                                                 
    Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, Dennis L. Hufstader                   
and Gerald H. Waterman, Assistant Attorneys General, for                         
appellee.                                                                        
    Berger & Kirschenbaum Co., L.P.A., and Linda U. Elliott,                     
for appellant.                                                                   
    Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease, Robin R. Obetz and Robert A.                  
Minor, urging affirmance for amicus curiae, Ohio Self-Insurers'                  
Association.                                                                     
    Stewart Jaffy & Associates Co., L.P.A., Stewart R. Jaffy                     
and Marc J. Jaffy, urging reversal for amici curiae, Ohio                        
AFL-CIO and Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers.                                       
                                                                                 
    The judgment of the court of appeals is affirmed on the                      
authority of State ex rel. Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Indus. Comm.                  
(1990), 52 Ohio St.3d 144, 556 N.E.2d 467.                                       
    Moyer, C.J., Douglas, Wright, Resnick, F.E. Sweeney,                         
Pfeifer and Cook, JJ., concur.