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...ployee to waive an employee's rights to compensation under this chapter is valid, except that: (A) An employee who is blind may waive the compensation that may become due to the employee for injury or disability in cases where the injury or disability may be directly caused by or due to the employee's blindness. The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' c...

...ce fund from the wages or salary of any employee entitled to the benefits of sections 4123.01 to 4123.94, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...ion of the lives, health, and safety of employees, or when the same is occasioned by the willful act of the employer or any of the employer's officers or agents, or by which it is agreed that the insurer shall pay any such damages. No license or authority to enter into any such agreements or issue any such policies of insurance shall be granted or issued by any public authority in this state. Any corporation or...

...compensation to the employer's injured employees or the dependents of the employer's killed employees as provided in section 4123.35 of the Revised Code, shall post conspicuously in the employer's place or places of employment notices, which shall be furnished at least annually by the bureau of workers' compensation. The notice shall state that it is proof of workers' compensation coverage, or that the employe...

...suring employer to, or on behalf of, an employee for any of the following: a hospital bill; a medical bill to a licensed physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse practitioner, or hospital; or an orthopedic or prosthetic device.

...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...

...(A) The administrator of workers' compensation shall prepare a report containing the following information regarding presumed cancer claims under division (D)(3)(b) of section 742.38 and division (X) of section 4123.68 of the Revised Code: (1) The number of approved claims; (2) The number of disapproved claims; (3) The number of active claims; (4) The cost related to claims described in divisions (A)(1) and (3) o...

...trict or staff hearing officer or other employee of the bureau or commission, notwithstanding the provisions of section 4123.27 of the Revised Code, shall divulge any information in respect of any claim or appeal which is or may be filed with a district or staff hearing officer, the bureau, or commission to any person other than members of the commission or to the superior of the employee except upon authorization of...

...compensation for an injury to the minor employee, but in the event of the award of a lump sum of compensation to the minor employee, the sum shall be paid to the legally appointed guardian of the minor or in accordance with section 2111.05 of the Revised Code. When it is found upon hearing by the industrial commission that an injury, occupational disease, or death of a minor working in employment which is prohibited...

...rding compensation to the dependents of employees, or others killed in Ohio, shall not make any discrimination against the widows, children, or other dependents who reside in a foreign country. The bureau, commission, or any other board or court, in determining the amount of compensation to be paid to the dependents of killed employees, shall pay to the alien dependents residing in foreign countries the same benefit...

...mployees so that the bureau of workers' compensation may transmit to the dependents the funds provided for in this chapter.

...ssion or the administrator of workers' compensation, the attorney general, or under the attorney general's direction the prosecuting attorney of any county in cases arising within the county, shall institute and prosecute the necessary actions or proceedings for the enforcement of this chapter, or for the recovery of any money due the state insurance fund, or any penalty, and shall defend in like manner all su...

...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...

...(A) The payment of compensation or benefits pursuant to this chapter or Chapter 4121., 4127., or 4131., of the Revised Code creates a right of recovery in favor of a statutory subrogee against a third party, and the statutory subrogee is subrogated to the rights of a claimant against that third party. The net amount recovered is subject to a statutory subrogee's right of recovery. (B) If a claimant, statutory subrog...

...to that claim: (1) The employer of the employee who is the subject of the claim pays premiums into the state insurance fund. (2) The claim is based on a motor vehicle accident involving a third party. (3) Either of the following circumstances apply to the claim: (a) The third party is issued a citation for violation of any law or ordinance regulating the operation of a motor vehicle arising from the accident on w...

...ecuted by the administrator of worker's compensation or by the state under the authority of this chapter shall have the same preference against the assets of the employer as is allowed by law on judgments rendered for claims for taxes.

...hall be liberally construed in favor of employees and the dependents of deceased employees.

...al commission or the bureau of workers' compensation.

... the persons who shall have paid a fee, compensation, or gratuity as prohibited by section 4123.417 of the Revised Code may recover by civil action three times the amount thereof, together with a reasonable attorney's fee, from the person to whom the sum was paid or given.

... of the Revised Code: (A) "Work-relief employee" means any person engaged in any public relief employment, and receiving "work-relief," who is under the supervision and control of any employer mentioned in this section or any agency of such employer. (B) "Work-relief" means public relief given in the form of public funds or goods, on the basis of the budgetary needs of the work-relief employee and his dependents, i...

...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 ...

...ut of the public work-relief employees' compensation fund, compensation, death benefits, medical, nurse, and hospital services, medicine, and funeral expenses, for loss sustained on account of such injury or death, as is provided for by Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code. Except as provided in section 4127.06 of the Revised Code, no compensation shall be paid from the work-relief employees' compensation fund for or o...

...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.

...n as the "public work-relief employees' compensation fund," and all compensation, death benefits, and expenses for medical, nurse, and hospital services, medicine, and funerals, shall be paid out of the fund. Such premiums shall be collected, the moneys of the fund disbursed and the fund maintained, without regard to or reliance upon any other fund mentioned in Chapter 4123. of the Revised Code. This section shall ...

...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.