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...r inspection by the bureau of workers' compensation, or any of its traveling auditors, inspectors, or assistants, for the purpose of ascertaining the correctness of the wage expenditure, the number of men employed, and such other information as is necessary for the uses and purposes of the bureau in its administration of the law. Refusal on the part of any employer to submit his books, records, and payrolls for the ...

...t least five years after the respective times of the transactions upon which the records are based. All books, records, papers, and documents reflecting upon the amount and the classifications of the payroll expenditures of an employer shall be kept available for inspection at any time by the bureau of workers' compensation or any of its assistants, agents, representatives, or employees. If an employer fails to keep...

...ers' compensation for not more than ten times the amount of the difference between the premium paid and the amount the employer should have paid. The liability to the state under this division may be enforced in a civil action in the name of the state, and all sums collected under this division shall be paid into the state insurance fund. (B) No self-insuring employer shall knowingly misrepresent the amount of p...

...d furnish to the bureau of workers' compensation upon request, all information required by the administrator of workers' compensation to carry out this chapter. (B) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, every private employer employing one or more employees regularly in the same business, or in or about the same establishment, shall submit a payroll report to the bureau. Until the policy yea...

...urnished to the bureau of workers' compensation by employers in pursuance of that section, is for the exclusive use and information of the bureau in the discharge of its official duties, and shall not be open to the public nor be used in any court in any action or proceeding pending therein unless the bureau is a party to the action or proceeding. The information contained in the payroll report may be tabulated...

...The administrator of workers' compensation may furnish to the tax commissioner, on a quarterly basis, a list in a format approved by the tax commissioner containing the name and social security number or employer identification number of any employer, and may request that the tax commissioner, on a quarterly basis, report the total amount of compensation paid that the employer reported for the period for which the an...

... disabled, or deceased employee and the time, the nature, and the cause of injury, occupational disease, or death, and such other information as is required by the bureau. The employer shall give a copy of each report to the employee it concerns or his surviving dependents. No employer shall refuse or neglect to make any report required by this section. Each day that an employer fails to file a report required by ...

...verage under this division. (d) At the time the administrator revises premium rates pursuant to this section and section 4123.34 of the Revised Code, if the premium rate of an employer who participates in a group plan established under this section changes from the rate established for the previous year, the administrator, in addition to sending the invoice with the rate revision to that employer, shall provide an e...

...ed 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 to th...

...or any and all noncompliant periods of time shall be calculated in the same manner as otherwise required under division (A) of section 4123.29 and section 4123.34 of the Revised Code, using both the wages reported in this state and the wages that the employer claimed would be reported to the other-states' insurer for securing coverage. (B) The administrator may offer other-states' coverage to allow an employe...

...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 direc...

...r the use of the bureau of workers' compensation and the industrial commission shall be known as the workers' compensation fund group. The moneys from each fund shall be disbursed respectively pursuant to vouchers approved by the administrator of workers' compensation or the administrator's designee, or by the chairperson of the commission or the chairperson's designee. The bureau and the commission shall provide fo...

...(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...

...(D)(2)(a) or (c) of this section, at no time shall the additional penalty amount assessed under division (D)(2)(a) or (c) of this section exceed fifteen per cent of the premium due. (4) If an employer recognized by the administrator as a professional employer organization or alternate employer organization fails to make a timely payment of premiums or assessments as required by section 4123.35 of the Revised Code, ...

...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...

...ent of a transition period during which time the bureau shall determine the adequacy of existing premium security deposits of employers, the establishment of provisions for additional premium payments during that transition, the provision of a credit of those deposits toward the first premium due from an employer under the rules adopted under divisions (A)(1) to (4) of this section, and the establishment of penalties...

...pted 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 section...

...(A) The administrator of workers' compensation shall adopt rules, for the purpose of encouraging economic development, that establish conditions under which any negative experience to be transferred to the account of an employer who is successor in interest under division (B) of section 4123.32 of the Revised Code may be reduced or waived. (B) The administrator, in adopting rules under division (A) of this section,...

...mployer a certificate for the length of time the administrator designates in the certificate.

...hall not place a limit on the length of time that an employer may participate in the bureau of workers' compensation drug free workplace and workplace safety programs.

... 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 state ...

...ction 4123.35 of the Revised Code. In a timely manner, the industrial commission shall provide to the administrator, the information necessary for the administrator to allocate and calculate, with the approval of the chairperson of the industrial commission, for each class of employer as described in this division, the costs solely attributable to the activities of the industrial commission. (B) The administrator ...

... reemployment if the employee should become unemployed and whose disability is due to any of the following diseases or conditions: (1) Epilepsy; (2) Diabetes; (3) Cardiac disease; (4) Arthritis; (5) Amputated foot, leg, arm, or hand; (6) Loss of sight of one or both eyes or a partial loss of uncorrected vision of more than seventy-five per cent bilaterally; (7) Residual disability from poliomyelitis; ...

...ture arising from a motor vehicle accident occurring outside of this state, the Administrator of Workers' Compensation shall suspend the imposition of any premium increase or any change in the experience of such an institution of higher education until after the conclusion of any subrogation claims that are brought by the Administrator in relation to those deaths and injuries.

...tion, 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 pro...