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...m participant who suffers an injury or contracts an occupational disease in the course of and arising out of participation in the learn to earn program is entitled to compensation and benefits under this chapter. (D)(1) This chapter is the exclusive remedy for a learn to earn program participant or the participant's dependents resulting from the participant's injury or occupational disease received in the cour...

...On or before the first day of July of every year, the administrator of workers' compensation shall estimate the gross payroll of all state employers for the succeeding biennium or fiscal year. The administrator shall determine and certify for the office of budget and management that rate or rates which, when applied to the gross payroll estimate, will produce an amount equal to the estimated cost of awards or...

...On or before the first day of November preceding each biennium, the officer or employee of each state department, division, subdivision, bureau, commission, or any other state agency required to submit a budget request to the director of budget and management for any biennium shall provide the bureau of workers' compensation with the estimated number of employees of the state department, division, subdivision, bureau...

... into a contract with one or more third party administrators for claims management of a state agency, office, institution, board, or commission, except for a public college or university, for workers' compensation claims and for claims covered by the occupational injury leave program adopted pursuant to section 124.381 of the Revised Code.

...(A)(1) For policy years that begin prior to January 1, 2016, by the first day of January of each year, the bureau of workers' compensation shall furnish to the county auditor of each county and the chief fiscal officer of each taxing district in a county and of each district activity and institution mentioned in section 4123.39 of the Revised Code forms containing the premium rates applicable to the county, dis...

...(A) For all injuries and disabilities occurring before January 1, 1987, the administrator of workers' compensation, for the purpose of carrying out sections 4123.412 to 4123.418 of the Revised Code and with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, may levy an assessment against all employers at a rate not to exceed ten cents per one hundred dollars of payroll. If the administr...

...able to them by virtue of and under the laws of this state in amounts, the total of which, when combined with disability benefits received pursuant to the Social Security Act is less than three hundred forty-two dollars per month adjusted annually as provided in division (B) of section 4123.62 of the Revised Code, there is hereby created a separate fund to be known as the disabled workers' relief fund, which fund sha...

...To be eligible to participate in said fund, a participant must be permanently and totally disabled and be receiving workers' compensation payments, the total of which, when combined with disability benefits received pursuant to The Social Security Act is less than three hundred forty-two dollars per month adjusted annually as provided in division (B) of section 4123.62 of the Revised Code.

...monthly under the workers' compensation laws for permanent and total disability. In determining such difference, a participant shall be considered as receiving the amount of such participant's compensation which shall have been commuted under the provisions of section 4123.64 of the Revised Code. Such payments shall be made monthly during the period in which such participant is permanently and totally disabled.

...Payments to a participant may be made from the disabled workers' relief fund by separate check or may be made from said fund and from the state insurance fund by one check, but each such check on two funds shall be so written as to show plainly the payments made from each fund. No disbursement shall be made from the state insurance fund on account of any provision of sections 4123.412 to 4123.415 of the Revised Code.

...the Ohio workers' compensation laws and contracts of insurance in respect thereof; and the superintendent of insurance shall promptly transmit all such lists and evidence to the bureau of workers' compensation. Any person claiming the right to participate in the fund may file his application therefor with the bureau and shall be accorded a hearing thereon.

...In the investigation and determination of the right of persons to participate in the disabled workers' relief fund, the administrator of workers' compensation shall have and exercise all the powers that he possesses under this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code. An order issued by the administrator relative to an individual's right to participate in the disabled workers' relief fund is appealable pursuant ...

...The administrator of workers' compensation shall employ employees as is necessary to the discharge of the administrator's duties and responsibilities hereunder. The salaries and expenses of the employees shall be paid by the treasurer of the state from the fund created by section 4123.412 of the Revised Code as provided in section 4123.42 of the Revised Code.

...The assessment rate established pursuant to section 4123.411 of the Revised Code, subject to the limits set forth in that section, shall be adequate to provide the amounts estimated as necessary by the administrator of workers' compensation to carry out the provisions of sections 4123.412 to 4123.418 of the Revised Code. For all injuries and disabilities occurring before January 1, 1987, the administrator, for the p...

...The treasurer of state shall be custodian of the state insurance fund, the occupational disease fund. The treasurer shall pay disbursements from the funds upon warrants drawn by the bureau of workers' compensation and signed by the administrator of workers' compensation. The warrants may bear the facsimile signature of the administrator printed thereon, or the facsimile signature printed thereon of the employee o...

...e same manner as and subject to all the laws with respect to the deposit of state funds by the treasurer of state. All interest earned by such portion of the state insurance funds as is deposited under this section shall be collected by the treasurer of state and placed to the credit of such fund.

...The members of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, the administrator of workers' compensation, and the bureau of workers' compensation chief investment officer are the trustees of the state insurance fund. The administrator, in accordance with sections 4121.126 and 4121.127 of the Revised Code and the investment policy approved by the board pursuant to section 4121.12 of the Revised Code, and in c...

...blic information in violation of those laws, rules, and regulations. For purposes of this division, no bureau of workers' compensation chief investment officer shall be considered to have failed to satisfy the officer's duty of reasonable supervision if the officer has done all of the following: (1) Adopted and implemented written procedures, and a system for applying the procedures, that would reasonably be e...

...al associated with that firm, any third party solicitor associated with that firm, or any political action committee controlled by that firm or controlled by an investment management professional of that firm based on criteria that are more restrictive than the restrictions described in divisions (Y) and (Z) of section 3517.13 of the Revised Code.

...Rental payments by the bureau of workers' compensation or the industrial commission to or for the benefit of the state insurance fund for each building owned by the bureau that was constructed or acquired as an investment in productive real estate, shall be made pursuant to a lease agreement for a term that shall not exceed two years. Beginning July 1, 1991, the rental payments to be made under each such lease agreem...

...Code or other law of this state, or the laws of any other state or the United States that are substantially equivalent to those offenses. (B)(1) Before entering into a contract with an investment manager to invest bureau of workers' compensation funds, the administrator shall do both of the following: (a) Request from any investment manager with whom the administrator wishes to contract for those investments a list...

...(A) The administrator of workers' compensation shall not enter into a contract with an investment manager for the investment of assets of the bureau of workers' compensation funds if any employee of that investment manager who will be investing assets of bureau of workers' compensation funds has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a financial or investment crime. (B) An investment manager who has entered into a c...

...nterprise with which the administrator contracts; (2) The amount of assets managed by investment managers that are minority business enterprises or women's business enterprises, expressed as a percentage of assets managed by investment managers with which the administrator has contracted; (3) Efforts by the administrator to increase utilization of investment managers that are minority business enterprises or ...

...All bonds of any taxing district of this state purchased by the administrator of workers' compensation shall be printed or lithographed upon paper of the size required by the administrator. Interest coupons on the bonds shall be attached to the bonds in a manner required by the administrator. The principal and interest of the bonds shall be payable at the office of the treasurer of state. The bonds shall be of the d...

...As used in this section, "ridesharing arrangement" means the transportation of persons in a motor vehicle where such transportation is incidental to another purpose of a volunteer driver and includes ridesharing arrangements known as carpools, vanpools, and buspools. No compensation shall be allowed under this chapter for any employee injured while participating in a ridesharing arrangement between his place of resi...