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...g in any way upon the amount of wage expenditure of such employers, shall always be open for 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 la...

...s, 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, preserve, and maintain the records and other information reflecting upon payroll expenditures, fails to make the records and...

...ver violates this division shall be liable to the state in an amount determined by the administrator of workers' 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...

... before August fifteenth of each year unless otherwise specified by the administrator in rules the administrator adopts. The employer shall include all of the following information in the payroll report, as applicable: (1) For payroll reports submitted prior to July 1, 2015, the number of employees employed during the preceding year from the first day of January through the thirty-first day of December who are loca...

...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 and published by the bureau in statistical form for the use and information of other state departments and the public. No person in the employ of the bureau, except those who are authorized by the administrator of workers' compensation, shall divulge any...

...o employees on the most recent return filed by the person pursuant to section 5747.07 of the Revised Code and the total amount of compensation paid that the employer reported for the period for which the annual return is made pursuant to division (F)(3) of section 5747.07 of the Revised Code.

...lity. Within a week after acquiring knowledge of an injury or death therefrom, and in the event of occupational disease or death therefrom, within one week after acquiring knowledge of or diagnosis of or death from an occupational disease or of a report to the employer of the occupational disease or death, a report thereof shall be made in writing to the bureau of workers' compensation upon blanks to be procured from...

... insurance establishes that are applicable to employers in this state; (2)(a) Fix the rates of premium of the risks of the classes based upon the total payroll in each of the classes of occupation or industry sufficiently large to provide a fund for the compensation provided for in this chapter and to maintain a state insurance fund from year to year. The administrator shall set the rates at a level that assures the...

...of liability as a noncomplying employer under section 4123.75 of the Revised Code; (3) An employer petition objecting to an assessment made pursuant to section 4123.37 of the Revised Code and the rules adopted pursuant to that section; (4) An employer request for the abatement of penalties assessed pursuant to section 4123.32 of the Revised Code and the rules adopted pursuant to that section; (5) An employer pr...

... 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 employer who wishes to obtain other-states' coverage pursuant to this sec...

... of such funds unless the moneys to the credit of such fund are sufficient therefor and no such disbursements shall be made for moneys or credits paid or credited to the other fund.

... 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 for the custody, safekeeping, and deposit of all moneys, checks, and drafts received b...

...vision (A)(1) of this section is to be credited, notwithstanding division (B) of section 9.37 of the Revised Code; (3) Contract with an agent to do both of the following: (a) Supply debit cards for claimants to access payments made to them pursuant to this chapter and Chapters 4121., 4127., and 4131. of the Revised Code; (b) Credit the debit cards described in division (A)(3)(a) of this section with the amoun...

...(D)(2) and (7) of this section shall be credited to the employer's account for rating purposes in the same manner as premiums. (E) A rule providing that each employer, on the occasion of instituting coverage under this chapter for an effective date prior to July 1, 2015, shall submit a premium security deposit. The deposit shall be calculated equivalent to thirty per cent of the semiannual premium obligation of the...

... 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 than is necessary adequately to safeguard the solvency of the fund, the board may return such excess surplus to the subscribers to the fund in either the form of cash refunds or a reduction of premi...

...ing 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 for late payment or failure to comply with the rules. (B) For purposes of division (A)(3) of this section, an employer shall make timely payment of any premium owed when actual payroll expenditures exce...

...g policy year pursuant to section 4123.26 of the Revised Code or the date upon which a public employer must submit the payroll report for the corresponding policy year pursuant to section 4123.41 of the Revised Code, as applicable.

... 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, may not permit a waiver or reduction in experience transfer if the succession transaction is entered int...

...tion under this chapter for a period of less than one year, the administrator may, upon such conditions as are just and for such premium as the facts require, grant to the employer a certificate for the length of time the administrator designates in the certificate.

...ccupation or industry, the lowest possible rates of premium consistent with the maintenance of a solvent state insurance fund and the creation and maintenance of a reasonable surplus, after the payment of legitimate claims for injury, occupational disease, and death that the administrator authorizes to be paid from the state insurance fund for the benefit of injured, diseased, and the dependents of killed employees. ...

... the state and by other employers amenable to this chapter as follows: (A) In addition to the contribution required of the state under sections 4123.39 and 4123.40 of the Revised Code, the state shall contribute the sum determined to be necessary under section 4123.342 of the Revised Code. (B) The director of budget and management may allocate the state's share of contributions in the manner the director finds mo...

... allocating to each class those costs solely attributable to the activities of the industrial commission and those costs solely attributable to the activities of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, and the bureau of workers' compensation in respect of the class, allocating to any combination of classes those costs attributable to the activities of the industrial commission, board, or bureau in res...

...) No employer shall in any year receive credit under this section in an amount greater than the premium the employer paid. (G) An order issued by the administrator pursuant to this section is appealable under section 4123.511 of the Revised Code but is not appealable to court under section 4123.512 of the Revised Code.

...h 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.

... 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 provides work-based learning experiences for students enrolled in a career-technical education program approved under section 3317.161 of the Revised Code. (2) The cl...