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...(A) The industrial commission shall: (1) Implement a program of impairment evaluation training for its staff physicians, certified nurse-midwives, clinical nurse specialists, and certified nurse practitioners; (2) Issue a manual of commission policy as to impairment evaluation so as to increase consistency of medical reports. This manual shall be available to the public at cost but shall be provided free to all p...

...all have all of the following duties: (1) Provide each claimant and employer fair, impartial, and equal treatment; (2) Recommend any needed improvements for changes in staff size and accessibility to service offices; (3) Recommend to the administrator appropriate action concerning any allegations of misconduct, abuse of authority, or fraud committed in his service office; (4) Ensure that all current bureau rules...

...hts and responsibilities under Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code and as part of that program prepare and distribute pamphlets, which clearly and simply explain at least all of the following: (1) The rights and responsibilities of claimants and employers; (2) The procedures for processing claims; (3) The procedure for fulfilling employer responsibility; (4) All applicable statutes of limitation; (5) The avai...

...pensable under this chapter or Chapter 4123., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code. In adopting the standards, the administrator shall use nationally recognized accreditation standards. The standards the administrator adopts must provide that a qualified plan provides for all of the following: (1) Criteria for selective contracting of health care providers; (2) Adequate plan structure and financial stability; (3) P...

...Not later than July 1, 2012, the administrator of workers' compensation shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement a coordinated services program for claimants under this chapter or Chapter 4123., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code who are found to have obtained prescription drugs that were reimbursed pursuant to an order of the administrator or of the industrial commiss...

...ers' compensation pursuant to sections 4121.61 to 4121.69 of the Revised Code includes the authority to do all of the following: (1) Contract with any public or private person for the rendition of rehabilitation services; (2) Take actions and utilize money in the state insurance fund as necessary to obtain federal funds and assistance in the maximum amounts and most advantageous proportions and terms ...

...oard of directors, shall adopt rules: (1) For the encouragement of reemployment of claimants who have successfully completed prescribed rehabilitation programs by payment from the surplus fund established by section 4123.34 of the Revised Code to employers who employ or re-employ the claimants. The period or periods of payments shall not exceed six months in the aggregate, unless the administrator or the administrat...

...e, employees as defined in division (A)(1) of section 4123.01 of the Revised Code, or if the state or any political subdivision thereof desires to secure workers' compensation coverage in respect of any volunteer fireman, policeman, deputy sheriff, marshal or deputy marshal, constable, or other person in its service in the event of the injury, disease, or death of such person while engaged in activities called for ...

...rovided under this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code as required by section 4123.35 of the Revised Code. Whoever violates this division is liable to the state in an amount determined by the self-insuring employers evaluation board pursuant to division (C) of section 4123.352 of the Revised Code or for an amount the board determines that is not more than ten times the amount of the difference between the ...

...he fund is not subject to sections 3929.10 to 3929.18 of the Revised Code or to regulation by the superintendent of insurance. (C) If a self-insuring employer defaults, the bureau shall recover the amounts paid as a result of the default from the self-insuring employers' guaranty fund. If a self-insuring employer defaults and is in compliance with this section for the payment of contributions to the fund, such self-...

...termined eligible, pursuant to section 4123.413 of the Revised Code, to participate in the disabled workers' relief fund is entitled to receive payments, without application, from the fund of a monthly amount equal to the lesser of the difference between three hundred forty-two dollars, adjusted annually pursuant to division (B) of section 4123.62 of the Revised Code, and: (1) The amount he is receiving per month as...

...t 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 purpose of car...

...specified in this chapter and Chapters 4121., 4127., and 4131. of the Revised Code, the workers' compensation investment committee shall do all of the following: (A) Specify the asset allocation targets and ranges, risk factors, asset class benchmarks, time horizons, total return objectives, and performance evaluation guidelines; (B) Prohibit investing the assets of those funds, directly or indirectly, in vehicl...

...ll not exceed two years. Beginning July 1, 1991, the rental payments to be made under each such lease agreement shall include the amount needed to amortize the construction or acquisition costs for the building over a period not to exceed twenty-five years, and, until such costs are amortized, an amount representing return on investment to the state insurance fund determined by multiplying the unamortized acquisition...

...(A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, the bureau of workers' compensation shall disburse the state insurance fund to employees of employers who have paid into the fund the premiums applicable to the classes to which they belong when the employees have been injured in the course of their employment, wherever the injuries have occurred, and provided the injuries have not been purposely self-infl...

... payment of compensation under section 4123.57, 4123.58, or division (A) or (B) of section 4123.56 of the Revised Code or wages in lieu of compensation in a manner so as to satisfy the requirements of section 4123.84 of the Revised Code, in which event the modification, change, finding, or award shall be made within five years from the date of the last medical services being rendered or the date of the last payment o...

...atest period of payments under section 4123.56 of the Revised Code or twenty-six weeks after the termination of wages in lieu of those payments, or not earlier than twenty-six weeks after the date of the injury or contraction of an occupational disease in the absence of payments under section 4123.56 of the Revised Code or wages in lieu of those payments, the employee may file an application with the bureau of worker...

...y 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 maxim...

... 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...

... compensation provided for in sections 4123.56 to 4123.59 of the Revised Code between the funds as in the administrator's judgment seems just and proper. If an employee has both occupational disease and an injury, and the administrator can determine which is causing the employee's disability, the administrator shall pay compensation therefor from the proper fund. Compensation for loss sustained on account of oc...

... insurance as defined in section 3929.01 of the Revised Code may by amendment of its articles of incorporation or by original articles of incorporation, provide therein for the authority and purpose to make insurance in states, territories, districts, and counties, other than the state of Ohio, and in the state of Ohio in respect of contracts permitted by division (B) of this section, indemnifying employers ag...

...lity not otherwise covered by Chapters 4121. and 4123. of the Revised Code, or liquor liability insurance carried by the professional employer organization, unless the professional employer organization agreement and applicable prearranged employment contract, insurance contract, or bond specifically states otherwise. A shared employee shall be considered an employee of the professional employer organization for p...

...oyees solely of the client employer. (1) A client employer shall be entitled to the benefit of any tax credit, economic incentive, or similar benefit arising as the result of the client employer's employment of shared employees. If the grant or amount of any tax credit, economic incentive, or other benefit is based on number of employees, each client employer shall be treated as employing only those shared emp...

...(A) In accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the administrator of the bureau of workers' compensation may deny registration or revoke the registration of a professional employer organization and rescind its status as a coemployer upon a finding that the professional employer organization has done any of the following: (1) Obtained or attempted to obtain registration through misrepresentation, misstatemen...

...d and administered pursuant to Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code. The fund shall consist of premiums and other payments thereto by subscribers who elect to subscribe to the fund to insure the payment of benefits required by the federal act. (B) The coal-workers pneumoconiosis fund shall be in the custody of the treasurer of state. The bureau of workers' compensation shall make disbursements from the fund to those p...