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...surers, fraternal benefit societies, or health insuring corporations. "Long-term care insurance" includes qualified long-term care insurance contracts. "Long-term care insurance" does not include any insurance policy that is offered primarily to provide basic medicare supplement coverage, basic hospital expense coverage, basic medical-surgical expense coverage, hospital confinement indemnity coverage, major medical...

...ild, in serious jeopardy; (b) Serious impairment to bodily functions; (c) Serious dysfunction of any bodily organ or part. (2) "Emergency services" means the following: (a) A medical screening examination, as required by federal law, that is within the capability of the emergency department of a hospital, including ancillary services routinely available to the emergency department, to evaluate an emergency me...

...3956.04 of the Revised Code, due to the impairment or insolvency of the member insurer that issued the policies, plans, or contracts. To provide this protection, the Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association, an association of member insurers, is created to pay benefits and to continue coverages, as limited in this chapter. Members of the association are subject to assessment to provide funds to carry out t...

...rest or changing values was the date of impairment or insolvency, whichever is earlier, and will not be subject to forfeiture. (3) The exclusion from coverage referenced in division (C)(2)(c) of this section shall not apply to any portion of a policy or contract, including a rider, that provides long-term care or any other health insurance benefits. (D) The benefits for which the association may become liable sha...

...suance without regard to any particular impairment or insolvency. (b) Alternative policies or contracts shall contain at least the minimum statutory provisions required in this state and provide benefits that are not unreasonable in relation to the premium charged. The association shall set the premium in accordance with the table of rates which it shall adopt. The premium shall reflect the amount of insurance or ...

...nt insurer, upon the termination of the impairment or insolvency of the member insurer, or upon the order of a court of competent jurisdiction. Nothing in this division shall limit the duty of the association to render a report of its activities under section 3956.14 of the Revised Code. (C) For the purpose of carrying out its obligations under this chapter, the association shall be deemed to be a creditor of the i...

...nrollee, is covered in the event of the impairment or insolvency of a member insurer. Failure to receive this summary document does not confer upon the policy owner, contract owner, certificate holder, enrollee, or insured any greater rights than those stated in this chapter. (4) The association shall revise the summary document as amendments to this chapter may require. (C) The summary document prepared under di...

...nd atmospheric administration or public health service, the spouse is the subject of a transfer, the individual left employment to accompany the individual's spouse to a location from which it is impractical to commute to the individual's place of employment, and upon arrival at the new place of residence, the individual is in all respects able and available for suitable work. For purpose of division (D)(2)(a)(v) of ...

...fund shall be used by the department of health only to defray the cost of designating hospitals as pediatric trauma centers under section 3727.081 of the Revised Code and to establish and administer a child highway safety program. The purpose of the program shall be to educate the public about child restraint systems and booster seats and the importance of their proper use. The program also shall include a process fo...

...ty requirements concerning the level of impairment an individual must have so that the amount appropriated for the program by the general assembly is adequate for the number of eligible individuals. The rules shall not limit the eligibility of individuals who are disabled solely on a basis classifying disabilities as physical or mental. (D) The county department of job and family services of the county in which an a...

...and managed by the department of mental health and addiction services to provide psychiatric hospitalization services in accordance with the requirements of this section pursuant to an agreement between the directors of rehabilitation and correction and mental health and addiction services or, is licensed by the department of mental health and addiction services pursuant to section 5119.33 of the Revised Code as a ps...

... services in a forensic or other mental health unit of a correctional facility, provided that the thirty-six-month period shall be extended by the length of any hospitalization or incarceration of the person that occurred within the thirty-six-month period. (II) Within the forty-eight months prior to the filing of an affidavit seeking court-ordered treatment of the person under section 5122.111 of the Revised Code,...

...l has a medically determinable physical impairment to which both of the following apply: (i) It is expected to last for a continuous period of not less than twelve months. (ii) It causes the individual to require assistance with activities of daily living, self-care, and mobility, including either assistance with self-administration of medication or the performance of nursing tasks, or both. (c) In the case ...

...e, or any other effects on the person's health that are caused by the person's exposure to asbestos. (D) "Asbestosis" means bilateral diffuse interstitial fibrosis of the lungs caused by inhalation of asbestos fibers. (E) "Board-certified internist" means a medical doctor who is currently certified by the American board of internal medicine. (F) "Board-certified occupational medicine specialist" means a medical do...

...aused by pain and suffering or physical impairment. (F)(1) For a victim described in division (L)(1) of this section, "allowable expense" means reasonable charges incurred for reasonably needed products, services, and accommodations, including those for medical care, rehabilitation, rehabilitative occupational training, and other remedial treatment and care and including replacement costs for hearing aids; dentures...

...condition related to the woman's mental health. (I) "Unborn child" means an individual organism of the species homo sapiens from fertilization until live birth.

... brain function that may manifest as an impairment, loss of consciousness, behavioral abnormalities, sensory disturbance or convulsions. (3) "Treating practitioner" means any of the following who has primary responsibility for treating a student's seizure disorder and has been identified as such by the student's parent, guardian, or other person having care or charge of the student or, if the student is at least e...

...overnment entity providing coverage for health care services on a self-insurance basis. (B) Upon the repeal of section 3901.50 of the Revised Code, no self-insurer shall do either of the following: (1) Consider any information obtained from genetic screening or testing in processing an application for coverage under a plan of self-insurance or in determining insurability under such a plan; (2) Inquire, directly...

... for each member insurer; (2) When an impairment is declared and the amount of the impairment is determined, serve a demand upon the impaired insurer to make good the impairment within a reasonable time. Notice to the impaired insurer shall constitute notice to its shareholders, if any. The failure of the impaired insurer promptly to comply with the demand shall not excuse the association from the performance of it...

...f the Revised Code. (2) "Impaired" or "impairment" means a financial situation in which the insurer's assets are less than the sum of the insurer's minimum required capital, minimum required surplus, and all liabilities, as determined in accordance with the requirements for the preparation and filing of the insurer's annual financial statement. (3) "Chief executive officer" means the person, irrespective of the per...

...trued to require an employer to pay for health insurance benefits for abortion, except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term or except where medical complications have arisen from the abortion, provided that nothing in this division precludes an employer from providing abortion benefits or otherwise affects bargaining agreements in regard to abortion.

...mplies with the applicable occupational health and safety standards required by the laws of the United States or of this state; (4) Which in the manufacture of products and in the provision of services, whether or not procured under sections 4115.31 to 4115.35 of the Revised Code, employs, during the fiscal year of commodity production or service provision, persons with severe disabilities at a quota not less than s...

...njury, or a substantial endangerment to health, property, or the environment may occur before the reasonably foreseeable completion date of a formal proceeding begun to lessen the risk of that death, illness, injury, or endangerment. (Y) "Medical variance" means one of the following received by a driver from the federal motor carrier safety administration that allows the driver to be issued a medical certificate: ...

...d a valid durable power of attorney for health care pursuant to sections 1337.11 to 1337.17 of the Revised Code or has executed a declaration governing the use or continuation, or the withholding or withdrawal, of life-sustaining treatment pursuant to sections 2133.01 to 2133.15 of the Revised Code and, if the applicant has executed either type of instrument, whether the applicant wishes the license issued to indicat...

...ll with established measures of alcohol impairment. (d) It works accurately and reliably in an unsupervised environment. (e) It is resistant to tampering and shows evidence of tampering if tampering is attempted. (f) It is difficult to circumvent and requires premeditation to do so. (g) It minimizes inconvenience to a sober user. (h) It requires a proper, deep-lung breath sample or other accurate measure of the ...