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...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...

...sease experience of the employer of the employee. That part of the compensation attributable to the injury or occupational disease sustained or suffered in the course of and arising out of his employment in this state shall be merit rated and treated as part of the accident or occupational disease experience of the employer of the employee, and shall be paid out of the state insurance fund, unless the employer is a s...

...se of rendering the injured or disabled employee financial relief or for the purpose of furthering the injured or disabled employee's rehabilitation, may commute payments of compensation or benefits to one or more lump-sum payments. (B) The administrator shall adopt rules which set forth the policy for awarding lump sum payments. The rules shall: (1) Enumerate the allowable purposes for payments and the condition...

...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...

... employer. (B) The bureau of workers' compensation shall prepare or adopt a form for the release of medical information, records, and reports relative to the issues necessary for the administration of a claim under this chapter. The claimant promptly shall provide a current signed form, or an equivalent form such as the standard form under section 3798.10 of the Revised Code, for the release of the information, rec...

...e, who pays the funeral expenses of any employee whose death ensues from any injury or occupational disease as provided in this section. The administrator may adopt rules, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, with respect to furnishing medical, nurse, and hospital service and medicine to injured or disabled employees entitled thereto, and for the payment therefor. In ...

...xecution, 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' compensation, pursuant to this chapter, including claims for premiums, and any judgment recovered thereon shall first be paid out of the trust fund in p...

...ccupational disease, is entitled to the compensation provided by sections 4123.55 to 4123.59 and 4123.66 of the Revised Code subject to the modifications relating to occupational diseases contained in this chapter. An order of the administrator issued under this section is appealable pursuant to sections 4123.511 and 4123.512 of the Revised Code. The following diseases are occupational diseases and compensable as s...

...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.

...or death from disease experienced by an employee who, at the time of entering into the employment from which the disease is claimed to have resulted, willfully and falsely represented self as not having previously had such disease. Compensation shall not be awarded on account of both injury and disease, except when the disability is caused by a disease and an injury, in which event the administrator of workers' compe...

...agnosis, send to the bureau of workers' compensation a report stating: (A) Name, address, and occupation of patient; (B) Name and address of business in which employed; (C) Nature of disease; (D) Name and address of employer of patient; (E) Such other information as is reasonably required by the bureau. The reports shall be made on blanks to be furnished by the bureau. A physician or nurse who sends the r...

...ny employer who employs less than three employees regularly in the same business, or in or about the same establishment, who pays into the state insurance fund the premiums provided by this chapter, is not liable to respond in damages at common law or by statute, for injuries or death of any such employees, wherever occurring, during the period covered by such premiums, provided the injured employee has remained in h...

...ondition, received or contracted by any employee in the course of or arising out of his employment, or for any death resulting from such injury, occupational disease, or bodily condition occurring during the period covered by such premium so paid into the state insurance fund, or during the interval the employer is a self-insuring employer, whether or not such injury, occupational disease, bodily condition, or death ...

...No employee of any employer, as defined in division (B) of section 4123.01 of the Revised Code, shall be liable to respond in damages at common law or by statute for any injury or occupational disease, received or contracted by any other employee of such employer in the course of and arising out of the latter employee's employment, or for any death resulting from such injury or occupational disease, on the condition ...

...al commission or the bureau of workers' compensation for compensation and the administrator of workers' compensation shall determine the application for compensation in like manner as in other claims and shall make an award to the claimant as he would be entitled to receive if the employer had complied with section 4123.35 of the Revised Code. Payment of the claim shall be made promptly from the statutory surplu...

...roceeding before the bureau of workers' compensation or the industrial commission or in any civil suit resulting therefrom, against the employer, arising out of or by reason of any injury or occupational disease as defined in this chapter, occurring within this state and involving employment in the activity or within the maintenance of the establishment.

...Service of process under section 4123.751 of the Revised Code shall be served by the officer to whom the same shall be directed or by the sheriff of Franklin county, who may be deputized for such purposes by the officer to whom the service is directed, upon the secretary of state by leaving at his office, at least fifteen days before the return day of such process, a true and attested copy thereof, and by sending to ...

...An officer serving the process under sections 4123.751 and 4123.752 of the Revised Code upon the secretary of state shall pay to such secretary at the time of service a fee of two dollars, which fee shall be taxed as costs in the case. The secretary of state shall keep a record of such process and the day and hour of the service thereof upon him.

...A court in which an action is pending pursuant to service of process under sections 4123.751 and 4123.752 of the Revised Code may order such continuance as may be necessary to afford the defendant reasonable opportunity to appear and defend the action.

...Sections 4123.751 to 4123.754, inclusive, of the Revised Code shall be construed to extend the right of service of process upon nonresidents and upon residents who subsequently become nonresidents or who conceal their whereabouts or, after due diligence, whose whereabouts cannot be ascertained and no forwarding address can be found, and shall not be construed as limiting any provisions for the service or process now ...

...roceeding before the bureau of workers' compensation or industrial commission, such sections shall likewise apply to any executor or administrator or the employer, and the employer shall be deemed to have constituted the secretary of state as his agent for such purpose, and the agency shall not terminate by reason of the death of the employer.

...When an application for compensation or benefits or an application for further compensation or benefits is filed with the industrial commission or the bureau of workers' compensation under section 4123.75 of the Revised Code against an employer who has not complied with section 4123.35 of the Revised Code, the bureau shall make and file for record in the office of the county recorder in the counties where the e...

... noncompliance, but are liable to their employees for damages suffered by reason of personal injuries sustained in the course of employment caused by the wrongful act, neglect, or default of the employer, or any of the employer's officers, agents, or employees, and also to the personal representatives of such employees where death results from such injuries, and in such action the defendant shall not avail self of t...

...rules of the administrator of workers' compensation, the administrator shall file with the county recorder of any counties in which the employer's property is located, its certificate of the amount of premium due from the employer, and that amount shall be a lien from the date of filing against the real property and personal property of the employer within the county in which the certificate is filed. The coun...

... 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...