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...(A) The administrator of workers' compensation and the industrial commission shall cooperatively implement with adequate staff a comprehensive in-service training program for their respective personnel that provides training with respect to the workers' compensation system in at least all of the following areas: (1) General policies; (2) Organization; (3) Regulations; (4) Management training, including supervisio...

...d under rules of the bureau of workers' compensation adopted pursuant to sections 4121.441 and 4121.442 of the Revised Code. (B) Any person, health care provider, managed care organization, or owner that violates division (A) of this section is liable, in addition to any other penalties provided by law, for all of the following penalties: (1) Payment of interest on the amount of the excess payments at the maximum i...

...de. (B) The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt rules, take measures, and make expenditures as it deems necessary to aid claimants who have sustained compensable injuries or incurred compensable occupational diseases pursuant to Chapter 4123., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code to return to work or to assist in l...

...mants who the administrator of workers' compensation determines could probably be rehabilitated to achieve the goals established by section 4121.61 of the Revised Code and who agree to undergo rehabilitation shall be paid living maintenance payments for a period or periods which do not exceed six months in the aggregate, unless review by the administrator or the administrator's designee reveals that the claimant will...

...iremen shall receive the regular state compensation for policemen and firemen in municipal corporations where no pension funds have been created, less the sum received by the policemen or firemen from the pension funds provided by the municipal corporation through taxation. The sum paid from the pension fund shall be certified to the bureau of workers' compensation by the treasurer or other officer controllin...

...f the Revised Code, to receive workers' compensation benefits for such accidental injury or death.

...r whom a rule of liability or method of compensation has been or may be established by congress, only to the extent that their mutual connection with intrastate work may be and is clearly separable and distinguishable from interstate or foreign commerce, and then only when such employer and any of his employees working only in this state, with the approval of the bureau of workers' compensation, and so far as not for...

...e commission and the bureau of workers' compensation shall prominently display in all areas of an office which claimants frequent a notice to the effect that the commission has statutory authority to resolve fee disputes. The commission shall adopt rules designed to prevent the solicitation of employment in the prosecution or defense of claims and make and adopt reasonable rules designed to promote the orderly and ex...

...administrator of the bureau of workers' compensation shall prepare and furnish blank forms of application for benefits or compensation from the state insurance fund, reports of injury, disability or occupational disease, notices to employers and employees, proofs of injury, disease, disability or death, proofs of medical attendance and hospital and nursing care, and proofs of employment and wage earnings, and other n...

...and employees of the bureau of workers' compensation designated by the administrator of workers' compensation, may for the purposes contemplated by this chapter, administer oaths, certify to official acts, take testimony or depositions, conduct hearings, inquiries, and investigations, issue subpoenas, and compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, accounts, papers, records, documents, evidence, a...

...officers, the administrator of workers' compensation, or any inspector or examiner of the commission or administrator, shall receive the fees and mileage provided for under section 119.094 of the Revised Code, which shall be paid from the state insurance fund on the approval of any two members of the commission, if the witness is subpoenaed by the commission or its secretary, district or staff hearing officer...

...The administrator of workers' compensation shall prepare and publish annually a complete report of the bureau of workers' compensation's and the industrial commission's operations for the preceding year. The annual report shall be submitted to the governor and shall be made available to all employees, employers, and the general public upon request. As a part of its annual report the bureau shall make a report for the...

...(A) The administrator of workers' compensation may do all of the following: (1) Utilize direct deposit of funds by electronic transfer for all disbursements the administrator is authorized to pay under this chapter and Chapters 4121., 4127., and 4131. of the Revised Code; (2) Require any payee to provide a written authorization designating a financial institution and an account number to which a payment made...

...The bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, based upon recommendations of the workers' compensation actuarial committee, shall adopt a rule with respect to the collection, maintenance, and disbursements of the state insurance fund providing that in the event there is developed as of any given rate revision date a surplus of earned premium over all losses that, in the judgment of the board, is larger...

...opted by the administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors. (B) For purposes of collection referrals to the attorney general under section 131.02 of the Revised Code, a premium payment is due thirty days after the date upon which a private employer must submit the payroll report for the corresponding policy year pursuant to sectio...

...rial commission, the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, and the bureau of workers' compensation shall be those costs and expenses that are incident to the discharge of the duties and performance of the activities of the industrial commission, the board, and the bureau under this chapter and Chapters 4121., 4125., 4127., 4133., and 4167. of the Revised Code, and all such costs shall be borne by the st...

...ployment and who are receiving workers' compensation which is payable 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...

...is receiving 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 d...

...ief 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 to section 4123.511 of the Revised Code but is not appealable to court under section 4123.512 of the Revis...

...essary 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 carrying out those sections and with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, may transfer to the disabled workers' relief fund from the ...

...s 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 residence and place of employment or termini near such places. Any injury occurring while an employee is voluntarily participating in a ridesharing arrangement is not considered occurring in the course of employment.

...The bureau of workers' compensation shall keep, for the state and each county, taxing district, district activity, and institution, an individual account showing the amount of money paid into the public insurance fund and the amount of losses incurred against the fund. When any default is made in the payment of the sums required to be contributed to the public insurance fund, or when any official fails to perform any...

...apter and the administrator of workers' compensation and his representative are entitled to like notice for orders issued under divisions (C) and (D) of section 4123.511 and section 4123.512 of the Revised Code. An employee, employer, or the administrator is deemed not to have received notice until the notice is received from the industrial commission or its district or staff hearing officers, the administrator, or t...

...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 per...

...hapter. 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.