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Ohio Rev Code § 4123.60 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation|Section 4123.60 | Persons Eligible for Death Benefits - Limitations.

Effective: October 20, 1993|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 107 - 120th General Assembly|Benefits in case of death shall be paid to such one or more of the dependents of the decedent, for the benefit of all the dependents as the administrator of workers' compensation determines. The administrator may apportion the benefits among the dependents in such manner as he deems just and equitable. Payment to a dependent subsequent in right may be made, if the administrator deems it proper, and operates to discharge all other claims therefor. The dependents or person to whom benefits are paid shall apply the same to the use of the several beneficiaries thereof according to their respective claims upon the decedent for support, in compliance with the finding and direction of the administrator.In all cases of death where the dependents are a surviving spouse and one or more children, it is sufficient for the surviving spouse to apply to the administrator on behalf of the spouse and minor children. In cases where all the dependents are minors, a guardian or next friend of such minor dependents shall apply.In all cases where an award had been made on account of temporary, or permanent partial, or total disability, in which there remains an unpaid balance, representing payments accrued and due to the decedent at the time of his death, the administrator may, after satisfactory proof has been made warranting such action, award or pay any unpaid balance of such award to such of the dependents of the decedent, or for services rendered on account of the last illness or death of such decedent, as the administrator determines in accordance with the circumstances in each such case. If the decedent would have been lawfully entitled to have applied for an award at the time of his death the administrator may, after satisfactory proof to warrant an award and payment, award and pay an amount, not exceeding the compensation which the decedent might have received, but for his death, for the period prior to the date of his death, to such of the dependents of the decedent, or for services rendered on account of the last illness or death of such decedent, as the administrator determines in accordance with the circumstances in each such case, but such payments may be made only in cases in which application for compensation was made in the manner required by this chapter, during the lifetime of such injured or disabled person, or within one year after the death of such injured or disabled person.An order issued by the administrator under this section is appealable pursuant to section 4123.511 of the Revised Code but is not appealable to court under section 4123.512 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 4123.61 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation|Section 4123.61 | Basis for Computation of Benefits.

Effective: August 25, 2006|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 7 - 126th General Assembly|The average weekly wage of an injured employee at the time of the injury or at the time disability due to the occupational disease begins is the basis upon which to compute benefits. In cases of temporary total disability the compensation for the first twelve weeks for which compensation is payable shall be based on the full weekly wage of the claimant at the time of the injury or at the time of the disability due to occupational disease begins; when a factory, mine, or other place of employment is working short time in order to divide work among the employees, the bureau of workers' compensation shall take that fact into consideration when determining the wage for the first twelve weeks of temporary total disability.Compensation for all further temporary total disability shall be based as provided for permanent disability claims.In death, permanent total disability claims, permanent partial disability claims, and impairment of earnings claims, the claimant's or the decedent's average weekly wage for the year preceding the injury or the date the disability due to the occupational disease begins is the weekly wage upon which compensation shall be based. In ascertaining the average weekly wage for the year previous to the injury, or the date the disability due to the occupational disease begins any period of unemployment due to sickness, industrial depression, strike, lockout, or other cause beyond the employee's control shall be eliminated.In cases where there are special circumstances under which the average weekly wage cannot justly be determined by applying this section, the administrator of workers' compensation, in determining the average weekly wage in such cases, shall use such method as will enable the administrator to do substantial justice to the claimants, provided that the administrator shall not recalculate the claimant's average weekly wage for awards for permanent total disability solely for the reason that the claimant continued working and the claimant's wages increased following the injury.
Ohio Rev Code § 4123.62 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation|Section 4123.62 | Consideration of Expected Wage Increases.

Effective: July 1, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly|(A) If it is established that an injured or disabled employee was of such age and experience when injured or disabled as that under natural conditions an injured or disabled employee's wages would be expected to increase, the administrator of workers' compensation may consider that fact in arriving at an injured or disabled employee's average weekly wage.(B) On each first day of January, the current maximum monthly benefit amounts provided in sections 4123.412, 4123.413, and 4123.414 of the Revised Code in injury cases shall be adjusted based on the United States department of labor's national consumer price index. The percentage increase in the cost of living using the index figure for the first day of September of the preceding year and the first day of September of the year preceding that year shall be applied to the maximums in effect on the preceding thirty-first day of December to obtain the increase in the cost of living during that year.In determining the increase in the maximum benefits for any year after 1972, the base shall be the national consumer price index on the first day of September of the preceding year. The increase in the index for the applicable twelve-month period shall be determined and shall be divided by the base used. The resulting percentage shall be applied to the existing maximums to arrive at the new maximums.(C) Effective January 1, 1974, and each first day of January thereafter, the current maximum weekly benefit amounts provided in sections 4123.56, 4123.58, and 4123.59, and division (B) of section 4123.57 of the Revised Code shall be adjusted based on the increase or decrease in the statewide average weekly wage."Statewide average weekly wage" means the average weekly earnings of all workers in Ohio employment subject to Chapter 4141. of the Revised Code as determined as of the first day of September for the four full calendar quarters preceding the first day of July of each year, by the director of job and family services.The statewide average weekly wage to be used for the determination of compensation for any employee who sustains an injury, or death, or who contracts an occupational disease during the subsequent calendar year beginning with the first day of January, shall be the statewide average weekly wage so determined as of the prior first day of September adjusted to the next higher even multiple of one dollar.Any change in benefit amounts is effective with respect to injuries sustained, occupational diseases contracted, and deaths occurring during the calendar year for which adjustment is made.In determining the change in the maximum benefits for any year after 1978, the base shall be the statewide average weekly wage on the first day of September of the preceding year.
Ohio Rev Code § 4123.64 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation|Section 4123.64 | Commutation to Lump Sum.

Effective: October 20, 1993|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 107 - 120th General Assembly|(A) The administrator of workers' compensation, under special circumstances, and when the same is deemed advisable for the purpose of rendering the injured or disabled employee financial relief or for the purpose of furthering his rehabilitation, may commute payments of compensation or benefits to one or more lump-sum payments.(B) The administrator shall adopt rules which set forth the policy for awarding lump sum payments. The rules shall:(1) Enumerate the allowable purposes for payments and the conditions for making such awards;(2) Enumerate the maximum reduction in compensation allowable;(3) Enumerate the documentation necessary to award a lump-sum payment;(4) Require that all checks include the claimant as a payee, except where the check is for the payment of attorney's fees in accordance with section 4123.06 of the Revised Code, in which case the attorney shall be named as the only payee on the check;(5) Require a fully completed and current application including notary and seal; and(6) Specify procedures to make a claimant aware of the reduction in amount of compensation which will occur.(C) An order of the administrator issued under this section is appealable pursuant to section 4123.511 of the Revised Code but is not appealable to court under section 4123.512 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 4123.651 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation|Section 4123.651 | Employer Initiating Medical Examinations.

Effective: October 20, 1993|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 107 - 120th General Assembly|(A) The employer of a claimant who is injured or disabled in the course of his employment may require, without the approval of the administrator or the industrial commission, that the claimant be examined by a physician of the employer's choice one time upon any issue asserted by the employee or a physician of the employee's choice or which is to be considered by the commission. Any further requests for medical examinations shall be made to the commission which shall consider and rule on the request. The employer shall pay the cost of any examinations initiated by the employer.(B) The bureau of workers' compensation shall prepare a form for the release of medical information, records, and reports relative to the issues necessary for the administration of a claim under this chapter. The claimant promptly shall provide a current signed release of the information, records, and reports when requested by the employer. The employer promptly shall provide copies of all medical information, records, and reports to the bureau and to the claimant or his representative upon request.(C) If, without good cause, an employee refuses to submit to any examination scheduled under this section or refuses to release or execute a release for any medical information, record, or report that is required to be released under this section and involves an issue pertinent to the condition alleged in the claim, his right to have his claim for compensation or benefits considered, if his claim is pending before the administrator, commission, or a district or staff hearing officer, or to receive any payment for compensation or benefits previously granted, is suspended during the period of refusal.(D) No bureau or commission employee shall alter any medical report obtained from a health care provider the bureau or commission has selected or cause or request the health care provider to alter or change a report. The bureau and commission shall make any request for clarification of a health care provider's report in writing and shall provide a copy of the request to the affected parties and their representatives at the time of making the request.
Ohio Rev Code § 4123.67 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation|Section 4123.67 | Compensation Exempt From Attachment or Execution.

Effective: March 22, 2001|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 180 - 123rd General Assembly|Except as otherwise provided in sections 3119.80, 3119.81, 3121.02, 3121.03, and 3123.06 of the Revised Code, compensation before payment shall be exempt from all claims of creditors and from any attachment or execution, and shall be paid only to the employees or their dependents. In all cases where property of an employer is placed in the hands of an assignee, receiver, or trustee, claims arising under any award or finding of the industrial commission or bureau of workers' compensation, pursuant to this chapter, including claims for premiums, and any judgment recovered thereon shall first be paid out of the trust fund in preference to all other claims, except claims for taxes and the cost of administration, and with the same preference given to claims for taxes.
Ohio Rev Code § 4123.69 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation|Section 4123.69 | Persons Entitled to Benefits.

Effective: November 3, 1989|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly|Every employee mentioned in section 4123.68 of the Revised Code and the dependents and the employer or employers of such employee shall be entitled to all the rights, benefits, and immunities and shall be subject to all the liabilities, penalties, and regulations provided for injured employees and their employers by this chapter. The administrator of workers' compensation shall have all of the powers, authority, and duties with respect to the collection, administration, and disbursement of the state occupational disease fund as are provided for in this chapter, providing for the collection, administration, and disbursement of the state insurance fund for the compensation of injured employees.
Ohio Rev Code § 4123.70 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation|Section 4123.70 | Preexisitng Disease.

Effective: October 20, 1993|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 107 - 120th General Assembly|No compensation shall be awarded on account of disability or death from disease suffered by an employee who, at the time of entering into the employment from which the disease is claimed to have resulted, willfully and falsely represented himself as not having previously suffered from such disease. Compensation shall not be awarded on account of both injury and disease, except when the disability is caused by a disease and an injury, in which event the administrator of workers' compensation may apportion the payment of compensation provided for in sections 4123.56 to 4123.59 of the Revised Code between the funds as in his judgment seems just and proper. If an employee is suffering from both occupational disease and an injury, and the administrator can determine which is causing his disability, the administrator shall pay compensation therefor from the proper fund. Compensation for loss sustained on account of occupational disease by an employee mentioned in division (A)(1) of section 4123.01 of the Revised Code, or the dependents of such employee, shall be paid from the fund provided for in sections 4123.38 to 4123.41 and 4123.48 of the Revised Code.Compensation for loss sustained on account of a disease by an employee mentioned in division (A)(2) of section 4123.01 of the Revised Code, or the dependents of the employee, shall be paid from the occupational disease fund or by the employer of the employee, if the employer is a self-insuring employer.
Ohio Rev Code § 4123.71 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation|Section 4123.71 | Time for Report of Physician.

Effective: September 29, 2017|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 27 - 132nd General Assembly|Every physician in this state attending on or called in to visit a patient whom the physician believes to be suffering from an occupational disease as defined in section 4123.68 of the Revised Code shall, within forty-eight hours from the time of making such diagnosis, send to the bureau of workers' compensation a report stating:(A) Name, address, and occupation of patient;(B) Name and address of business in which employed;(C) Nature of disease;(D) Name and address of employer of patient;(E) Such other information as is reasonably required by the bureau.The reports shall be made on blanks to be furnished by the bureau. A physician who sends the report within the time stated to the bureau is in compliance with this section.Reports made under this section shall not be evidence of the facts therein stated in any action arising out of a disease therein reported.The bureau shall, within twenty-four hours after the receipt of the report, send a copy thereof to the employer of the patient named in the report.
Ohio Rev Code § 4123.73 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation|Section 4123.73 | Participation by Employers of Less Than Three Persons.

Effective: October 20, 1993|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 107 - 120th General Assembly|Any employer who employs less than three employees regularly in the same business, or in or about the same establishment, who pays into the state insurance fund the premiums provided by this chapter, is not liable to respond in damages at common law or by statute, for injuries or death of any such employees, wherever occurring, during the period covered by such premiums, provided the injured employee has remained in his service with notice, as provided in section 4123.83 of the Revised Code, that his employer has paid such premiums into the state insurance fund. The continuation in the service of such employer with such notice shall be deemed a waiver by the employee of his right of action.Any person who employs one or more individuals who are not employees as defined in section 4123.01 of the Revised Code, who pays into the state insurance fund the premiums provided by this chapter, is not liable to respond in damages at common law or by statute for injuries or death of any such individuals, wherever occurring, during the period covered by such premiums, provided the injured individual has remained in the service of such person with notice that his employer has paid such premiums into the state insurance fund. The continuation in the service of such employer with such notice, as provided in section 4123.83 of the Revised Code, shall be deemed a waiver by the individual of his right of action.
Ohio Rev Code § 4123.74 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation|Section 4123.74 | Immunity of Employer.

Effective: October 20, 1993|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 107 - 120th General Assembly|Employers who comply with section 4123.35 of the Revised Code shall not be liable to respond in damages at common law or by statute for any injury, or occupational disease, or bodily condition, received or contracted by any employee in the course of or arising out of his employment, or for any death resulting from such injury, occupational disease, or bodily condition occurring during the period covered by such premium so paid into the state insurance fund, or during the interval the employer is a self-insuring employer, whether or not such injury, occupational disease, bodily condition, or death is compensable under this chapter.
Ohio Rev Code § 4123.741 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation|Section 4123.741 | Immunity of Fellow Employees.

Effective: October 1, 1963|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 131 - 105th General Assembly|No employee of any employer, as defined in division (B) of section 4123.01 of the Revised Code, shall be liable to respond in damages at common law or by statute for any injury or occupational disease, received or contracted by any other employee of such employer in the course of and arising out of the latter employee's employment, or for any death resulting from such injury or occupational disease, on the condition that such injury, occupational disease, or death is found to be compensable under sections 4123.01 to 4123.94, inclusive, of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 4123.751 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation|Section 4123.751 | Service on Nonresident Employer.

Effective: November 3, 1989|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 222 - 118th General Assembly|Any nonresident person, firm, or corporation of this state who engages in any activity or maintains any establishment in this state so as to be an employer, as defined in division (B) of section 4123.01 of the Revised Code, or any resident of this state, being an employer as so defined, who has engaged in any such activity or maintained any such establishment in this state, who subsequently becomes a nonresident or conceals his whereabouts, or, after due diligence, whose whereabouts cannot be ascertained and no forwarding address can be found, shall, by engagement in the activity or by maintenance of the establishment, make and constitute the secretary of state his agent for the service of process in any proceeding before the bureau of workers' compensation or the industrial commission or in any civil suit resulting therefrom, against the employer, arising out of or by reason of any injury or occupational disease as defined in this chapter, occurring within this state and involving employment in the activity or within the maintenance of the establishment.
Ohio Rev Code § 4123.752 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation|Section 4123.752 | Manner of Service.

Effective: October 13, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 258 - 100th General Assembly|Service of process under section 4123.751 of the Revised Code shall be served by the officer to whom the same shall be directed or by the sheriff of Franklin county, who may be deputized for such purposes by the officer to whom the service is directed, upon the secretary of state by leaving at his office, at least fifteen days before the return day of such process, a true and attested copy thereof, and by sending to the defendant, by registered mail, postage prepaid at least fifteen days before the return day of such process, a like true and attested copy thereof, with an endorsement thereon of the service upon the secretary of state, addressed to such defendant at his last known address. The registered mail return receipt shall be attached to and made a part of the return of service of such process.
Ohio Rev Code § 4123.753 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation|Section 4123.753 | Service Fee.

Effective: October 13, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 258 - 100th General Assembly|An officer serving the process under sections 4123.751 and 4123.752 of the Revised Code upon the secretary of state shall pay to such secretary at the time of service a fee of two dollars, which fee shall be taxed as costs in the case. The secretary of state shall keep a record of such process and the day and hour of the service thereof upon him.
Ohio Rev Code § 4123.754 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 41 | Labor and Industry|Chapter 4123 | Workers' Compensation|Section 4123.754 | Continuance.

Effective: October 13, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 258 - 100th General Assembly|A court in which an action is pending pursuant to service of process under sections 4123.751 and 4123.752 of the Revised Code may order such continuance as may be necessary to afford the defendant reasonable opportunity to appear and defend the action.