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...s 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 county r...

...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 ...

...loyee 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' co...

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

... loss or liability for the payment of compensation to workers or their dependents for death, injury, or occupational disease occasioned in the course of the workers' employment, or which provide that the insurer shall pay the compensation, or which indemnify the employer against damages when the injury, disease, or death arises from the failure to comply with any lawful requirement for the protection of the li...

...ce fund or electing directly to pay 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 notices, which shall be furnished at least annually by the bureau of workers' compensation. The employer shall post the notice conspicuously in the employer's place or places of employment or on the internet in a manner...

...employer shall post and maintain at all times one or more of the notices in conspicuous places in the workshop or places of employment. (C) The commission has continuing jurisdiction as set forth in section 4123.52 of the Revised Code over a claim which meets the requirement of this section, including jurisdiction to award compensation or benefits for loss or impairment of bodily functions developing in a part or p...

...om 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 mad...

...(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...

...herewith before the bureau of workers' compensation or the industrial commission or its district or staff hearing officers. No person shall, without prior authority from the bureau, a member of the commission, the claimant, or the employer, examine or directly or indirectly cause or employ another person to examine any claim file or any other file pertaining thereto. No person shall forge an authorization for the pur...

...in such amount, covering such period of time as may be fixed, as will recoup the state fund in the amount of the additional award.

...The bureau of workers' compensation, industrial commission, or any other body constituted by the statutes of this state, or any court of this state, in awarding 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 th...

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

...n 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 suits,...

...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 party" m...

...(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...

...ision (D)(1) of this section within the time required, the administrator shall charge the claim for which the request was made to the surplus fund account pursuant to this section. (E) This section does not apply if the employer of the employee who is the subject of the claim is the state or a state institution of higher education, including its hospitals.

...cuted 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.

...strued in favor of employees and the dependents of deceased employees.

...present parties, before the industrial commission or the bureau of workers' compensation.

... 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.

...trict, the state, and the state relief commission or any other state agency having supervision or control of work-relief employees, either directly or through agencies.

...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 ...

...t 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 on...

...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.