Court Opinion

ID: 9801045
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 08:45:20.338665+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:50:21.950418
License: Public Domain

Douglas, J.,
concurring. I concur in the well-reasoned opinion of Justice Pfeifer. I write separately to make one additional point.
R.C. 4121.31, in part, provides:
*511“The administrator of workers’ compensation and the industrial commission jointly shall adopt rules covering the following general topics with respect to this chapter [4121] and Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code:
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“(C) All claims, whether of a state fund or self-insuring employer, be processed in an orderly, uniform, and timely fashion.” (Emphasis added.)
Clearly, the respondent bureau (pursuant to its promulgated “policy”) is not handling TTD disputes in a “uniform” fashion as required by the statute. This is so because State Fund claimants are affected by the “policy” but employee-claimants of a self-insured employer are not. Really, given R.C. 4121.31, nothing more needs to be said.