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...her or not an application for an award under divisions (A), (B), (C), or (D) of section 4123.57 of the Revised Code has been filed shall be governed by the provisions of 4123.57 of the Revised Code, as amended by this act.

...he occupational disease begins, nor not less than a minimum amount of weekly compensation which is equal to fifty per cent of the statewide average weekly wage as defined in division (C) of section 4123.62 of the Revised Code in effect on the date of injury or on the date the disability due to the occupational disease begins, unless the employee's average weekly wage is less than fifty per cent of the statewide avera...

...cational program while enrolled in an accredited educational institution and program, reaches twenty-five years of age; (c) If mentally or physically incapacitated from having any earnings, is no longer so incapacitated. (3)(a) Payments under division (B) of this section to a dependent described in division (B)(2)(c) of this section shall not be terminated due to the dependent's employment in a sheltered workshop i...

... most recent return filed by the person under section 5747.08 of the Revised Code, filed under the status "married filing joint return," or "married filing separately."

...ses where an award had been made on account of temporary, or permanent partial, or total disability, in which there remains an unpaid balance, representing payments accrued and due to the decedent at the time of his death, the administrator may, after satisfactory proof has been made warranting such action, award or pay any unpaid balance of such award to such of the dependents of the decedent, or for services render...

...cupational disease begins any period of unemployment due to sickness, industrial depression, strike, lockout, or other cause beyond the employee's control shall be eliminated. In cases where there are special circumstances under which the average weekly wage cannot justly be determined by applying this section, the administrator of workers' compensation, in determining the average weekly wage in such cases, shall us...

...rience when injured or disabled as that under natural conditions an injured or disabled employee's wages would be expected to increase, the administrator of workers' compensation may consider that fact in arriving at an injured or disabled employee's average weekly wage. (B) On each first day of January, the current maximum monthly benefit amounts provided in sections 4123.412, 4123.413, and 4123.414 of the Revised ...

...rary. The administrator may accept and credit to the statutory surplus of the state insurance fund any sum of money that may at any time be contributed to or made available to the state by the United States under any act of congress, or otherwise, to which the state is, or may become, entitled by reason of any payments made to employees out of the statutory surplus in accordance with this chapter.

...ces, and when the same is deemed advisable for the purpose of rendering the injured or disabled employee financial relief or for the purpose of furthering the injured or disabled employee's rehabilitation, may commute payments of compensation or benefits to one or more lump-sum payments. (B) The administrator shall adopt rules which set forth the policy for awarding lump sum payments. The rules shall: (1) Enumera...

... with the administrator of workers' compensation for approval of a final settlement of a claim under this chapter. The application shall include the settlement agreement, and except as otherwise specified in this division, be signed by the claimant and employer, and clearly set forth the circumstances by reason of which the proposed settlement is deemed desirable and that the parties agree to the terms of the settlem...

...ssary for the administration of a claim under this chapter. The claimant promptly shall provide a current signed form, or an equivalent form such as the standard form under section 3798.10 of the Revised Code, for the release of the information, records, and reports when requested by the employer. The employer promptly shall provide copies of all medical information, records, and reports to the bureau and to the clai...

... disburse and pay from the fund reasonable funeral expenses in an amount not to exceed seven thousand five hundred dollars. The bureau of workers' compensation shall reimburse anyone, whether dependent, volunteer, or otherwise, who pays the funeral expenses of any employee whose death ensues from any injury or occupational disease as provided in this section. The administrator may adopt rules, with the advice and con...

...e, receiver, or trustee, claims arising under any award or finding of the industrial commission or bureau of workers' compensation, pursuant to this chapter, including claims for premiums, and any judgment recovered thereon shall first be paid out of the trust fund in preference to all other claims, except claims for taxes and the cost of administration, and with the same preference given to claims for taxes.

...r. An order of the administrator issued under this section is appealable pursuant to sections 4123.511 and 4123.512 of the Revised Code. The following diseases are occupational diseases and compensable as such when contracted by an employee in the course of the employment in which such employee was engaged and due to the nature of any process described in this section. A disease which meets the definition of an occ...

...ed to all the rights, benefits, and immunities and shall be subject to all the liabilities, penalties, and regulations provided for injured employees and their employers by this chapter. The administrator of workers' compensation shall have all of the powers, authority, and duties with respect to the collection, administration, and disbursement of the state occupational disease fund as are provided for in thi...

...No compensation shall be awarded on account of disability or death from disease experienced by an employee who, at the time of entering into the employment from which the disease is claimed to have resulted, willfully and falsely represented self as not having previously had such disease. Compensation shall not be awarded on account of both injury and disease, except when the disability is caused by a disease and an ...

...iance with this section. Reports made under this section shall not be evidence of the facts therein stated in any action arising out of a disease therein reported. The bureau shall, within twenty-four hours after the receipt of the report, send a copy thereof to the employer of the patient named in the report.

...ent, who pays into the state insurance fund the premiums provided by this chapter, is not liable to respond in damages at common law or by statute, for injuries or death of any such employees, wherever occurring, during the period covered by such premiums, provided the injured employee has remained in his service with notice, as provided in section 4123.83 of the Revised Code, that his employer has paid such premiums...

...emium so paid into the state insurance fund, or during the interval the employer is a self-insuring employer, whether or not such injury, occupational disease, bodily condition, or death is compensable under this chapter.

...ry, occupational disease, or death is found to be compensable under sections 4123.01 to 4123.94, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

... resulting in death, occurred shall be credited against the amount of any judgment for compensation recovered pursuant to this section. The amount recovered in the action from the employer shall be paid into the surplus fund created under division (B) of section 4123.34 of the Revised Code up to the amount paid out of the surplus fund and the balance into the state insurance fund. Any employee of a self-insuri...

...ined and no forwarding address can be found, shall, by engagement in the activity or by maintenance of the establishment, make and constitute the secretary of state his agent for the service of process in any proceeding before the bureau of workers' compensation or the industrial commission or in any civil suit resulting therefrom, against the employer, arising out of or by reason of any injury or occupational diseas...

...by leaving at his office, at least fifteen days before the return day of such process, a true and attested copy thereof, and by sending to the defendant, by registered mail, postage prepaid at least fifteen days before the return day of such process, a like true and attested copy thereof, with an endorsement thereon of the service upon the secretary of state, addressed to such defendant at his last known address. The...

...An officer serving the process under sections 4123.751 and 4123.752 of the Revised Code upon the secretary of state shall pay to such secretary at the time of service a fee of two dollars, which fee shall be taxed as costs in the case. The secretary of state shall keep a record of such process and the day and hour of the service thereof upon him.

...cessary to afford the defendant reasonable opportunity to appear and defend the action.