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...The bureau of workers' compensation shall adopt rules to regulate and provide for the kind and character of notices, and the services thereof, in cases of injury, occupational disease, or death resulting from either, to employees, the nature and extent of the proofs and evidence, and the method of taking and furnishing the same, and to establish the right to benefits or compensation from the state insurance fund, the...

...ointed by the administrator of workers' compensation to hear any matter specified in divisions (B)(1) to (7) of this section shall hear the matter within sixty days of the date on which an employer files the request, protest, or petition. An employer desiring to file a request, protest, or petition regarding any matter specified in divisions (B)(1) to (7) of this section shall file the request, protest, or petition t...

... of the Revised Code for the payment of compensation, medical services, examinations, recommendations and determinations, nursing and hospital services, medicine, rehabilitation, death benefits, funeral expenses, and like benefits for loss sustained on account of injury, disease, or death provided for by this chapter, the administrative costs of the industrial commission, bureau of workers' compensation board of dire...

...(A) The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt rules establishing a prospective payment system, which shall include all of the following: (1) A requirement that upon an initial application for coverage, a private employer shall file with the application an estimate of the employer's payroll for the period the administ...

... section, the administrator of workers' compensation, subject to the approval of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt a rule that prohibits the administrator from charging any amount with respect to a claim for compensation or benefits under this chapter or Chapters 4121., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code to an employer's experience if both of the following apply: (1) The employer...

...ices shall act as employer for workers' compensation claims arising under this chapter and Chapters 4121., 4127., and 4131. of the Revised Code for all state agencies, offices, institutions, boards, or commissions except for public colleges and universities. The department shall review, process, certify or contest, and administer workers' compensation claims for each state agency, office, institution, board, and comm...

... 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 administrator levies an assessment under this division, the rate of tha...

...arrants 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 of the bureau charged with the duty of keeping the account of the funds and with the preparation of warrants for the payment of compensation to the persons entit...

...ndents 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 sever...

...tion with the administrator of workers' compensation for approval of a final settlement of a claim under this chapter. The application shall include the settlement agreement, and except as otherwise specified in this division, be signed by the claimant and employer, and clearly set forth the circumstances by reason of which the proposed settlement is deemed desirable and that the parties agree to the terms of the set...

...1.03, 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' compensatio...

... the employer's premium to the workers' compensation fund as prescribed in this chapter. The procedure to obtain an injunction is governed by Chapter 2727. of the Revised Code and the right to such relief is in addition to the rights described in section 2727.02 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) No construction contractor or subcontractor who, on the date of entering into a construction contract has not been in compliance...

...g from occupational disease, claims for compensation or benefits are forever barred unless, within one year after the disability due to the disease began, or within such longer period as does not exceed six months after diagnosis of the occupational disease by a licensed physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner or within one year after death occurs, application is...

...ans a person who is eligible to receive compensation, medical benefits, or death benefits under this chapter or Chapter 4121., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code. (B) "Statutory subrogee" means the administrator of workers' compensation, a self-insuring employer, or an employer that contracts for the direct payment of medical services pursuant to division (P) of section 4121.44 of the Revised Code. (C) "Third part...

...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, misstatement of a material fact, or fraud; (2) Misappropriated any fund...

...The administrator of workers' compensation may hear and determine all claims for compensation, death benefits, medical, nurse, and hospital services, medicine, and funeral expenses under this chapter. The decisions of the administrator in all claims for compensation, death benefits, medical, nurse, and hospital services, medicine, and funeral expenses are appealable pursuant to sections 4123.511 and 4123.512 of the ...

...The basis upon which compensation or benefits shall be computed, is the amount of work-relief which would have been afforded to the injured person for the calendar week in which the injury or death occurred. In no event shall such compensation exceed the maximum reimbursable relief award established by the state which the claimant would have been entitled to had he not been injured.

...ut of the public work-relief employees' compensation fund by the bureau of workers' compensation in the same manner and amount as is provided in sections 4127.01 to 4127.14 of the Revised Code for other disabilities.

...The administrator of workers' compensation, under special circumstances and with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, may adjust the rate of disbursements of compensation of benefits, which shall not in any instance exceed the maximum reimbursable relief award established by the state which the claimant would have been entitled to had the claimant not been injured.

...asurer of state. The bureau of workers' compensation shall make disbursements from the fund to those persons entitled to payment therefrom and in the amounts required pursuant to sections 4131.01 to 4131.06 of the Revised Code. All investment earnings of the fund shall be credited to the fund. The director of natural resources annually may request the administrator of workers' compensation to transfer a portion of ...

...he "Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act Amendments of 1972," 86 Stat. 1251, 33 U.S.C.A. 901. (B) "Marine industry fund" means the fund created and administered pursuant to sections 4131.11 to 4131.16 of the Revised Code and does not refer, directly or indirectly, to any fund created and administered pursuant to Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code. (C) "Premium" means payment to the marine indust...

...rs who apply to the bureau of workers' compensation for permission to subscribe to the fund to insure the payment of benefits required by the federal act. By rule, the administrator of workers' compensation shall establish criteria for the acceptance or rejection of applications by marine industry employers who apply to subscribe to the fund. (B) The marine industry fund shall be in the custody of the treasu...

...nts submitted to the bureau of workers' compensation. If a deficit in working capital is reflected in the financial statements submitted to the bureau, the alternate employer organization shall submit to the administrator of workers' compensation a quarterly financial statement for each calendar quarter during which there is a deficit in working capital, accompanied by an attestation of the chief executive officer, p...

...administrator of the bureau of workers' compensation may deny registration or revoke the registration of an alternate employer organization and rescind its status as an employer upon a finding that the alternate employer organization has done any of the following: (1) Obtained or attempted to obtain registration through misrepresentation, misstatement of a material fact, or fraud; (2) Misappropriated any funds of...

... shall be approved by the unemployment compensation review commission before the rules become effective. All such rules shall specify on their face their effective date and the date on which they will expire, if known. Approval by the unemployment compensation review commission shall also be required before amendments to, or rescission of, any rules of the director adopted pursuant to this chapter become effec...