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...25) Disability with respect to which an individual has completed a rehabilitation program conducted pursuant to sections 4121.61 to 4121.69 of the Revised Code. (B) Under the circumstances set forth in this section all or such portion as the administrator determines of the compensation and benefits paid in any claim arising hereafter shall be charged to and paid from the statutory surplus fund created under section...

...In the case of any institution of higher education that has sustained claims arising from deaths and injuries of a catastrophic nature 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 ...

...(A) The employers providing work-based learning program is created. As soon as practicable after the effective date of this section, 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 Chapt...

...nsation board of directors, for the remainder of the policy year for which the coverage is effective. The administrator, with the advice and consent of the board, shall adopt rules to permit employers to make periodic payments of the premium and assessment due under this division. The rules shall include provisions for the assessment of interest charges, where appropriate, and for the assessment of penalties when a...

...ding any self-insuring employer that is indemnified by a captive insurance company granted a certificate of authority under Chapter 3964. of the Revised Code, to pay a contribution, calculated under this section, to the self-insuring employers' guaranty fund established pursuant to this section. The fund shall provide for payment of compensation and benefits to employees of the self-insuring employer in order to cove...

... industrial commission representing the public shall be a member of the self-insuring employers evaluation board and shall serve, ex officio, as chairman. The governor shall appoint the remaining two members with the advice and consent of the senate. One member shall be a member of the Ohio self-insurance association and one member shall be a representative of labor. Not more than two of the three members of the boar...

...(A) A public employer, except for a board of county commissioners described in division (G) of section 4123.01 of the Revised Code, a board of a county hospital, or a publicly owned utility, who is granted the status of self-insuring employer pursuant to section 4123.35 of the Revised Code shall do all of the following: (1) Reserve funds as necessary, in accordance with sound and prudent actuarial judgment, t...

...Whenever an employer fails to pay a premium due and the administrator of workers' compensation determines the employer's account to be uncollectible, the administrator shall cover the default from the state insurance fund. Thereafter, the employer shall be considered a noncomplying employer under this chapter and shall not be entitled to the benefits and protection of this chapter.

..., or private corporation, including any public service corporation, is, or has been at any time after January 1, 1923, an amenable employer and has not complied with section 4123.35 of the Revised Code the administrator shall determine the period during which the person, firm, or corporation was an amenable employer and shall forthwith give notice of the determination to the employer. Within twenty days thereaf...

...Every public employer, except for boards of county hospital trustees that are self-insurers under section 4123.35 of the Revised Code, shall contribute to the public insurance fund the amount of money determined by the administrator of workers' compensation, and the manner of determining contributions and the classifications of employers is as provided in sections 4123.39 to 4123.41 and 4123.48 of the Revised Code.

...l obligations and to maintain a solvent public insurance fund. The administrator shall classify hospitals owned by a political subdivision or subdivisions as a group and merit rate each individual hospital according to its individual accident experience as provided in the rules of the administrator. A children's home or other such public institution, or any other public activity maintained and operated by two or mo...

...(A) For purposes of this section, "learn to earn program" has the same meaning as in section 4141.293 of the Revised Code. (B) Solely for the purpose of providing compensation and benefits as set forth in this section, a participant in a learn to earn program is an employee of the department, and not an employee of the entity conducting the training. (C) A learn to earn program participant who suffers an inju...

...tions in accordance with their expected individual accident experience so that the state and its departments, agencies, and instrumentalities contribute an amount sufficient to meet individual obligations and the obligations of the participants in total. Moneys collected from state employers shall not be used to pay compensation or other benefits attributable to service of persons as employees of counties or t...

...On or before the first day of November preceding each biennium, the officer or employee of each state department, division, subdivision, bureau, commission, or any other state agency required to submit a budget request to the director of budget and management for any biennium shall provide the bureau of workers' compensation with the estimated number of employees of the state department, division, subdivision, bureau...

...ions, boards, or commissions except for public colleges and universities. The department shall review, process, certify or contest, and administer workers' compensation claims for each state agency, office, institution, board, and commission, except for a public college or university, unless otherwise agreed to between the department and a state agency, office, institution, board, or commission. The department may e...

...'s workers' compensation program; (b) Indirect costs that are necessary and reasonable for the proper and efficient administration of the workers' compensation program as documented in a cost allocation plan. The indirect cost plan shall conform to the United States office of management and budget circular A-87 "cost principles for state and local governments," 2 C.F.R. 225, as most recently amended on May 10,...

... 4123.26 of the Revised Code, or, for a public employer, submitted pursuant to section 4123.41 of the Revised Code. Amounts assessed in accordance with this section shall be collected from each employer as prescribed in rules the administrator adopts. The moneys derived from the assessment provided for in this section shall be credited to the disabled workers' relief fund created by section 4123.412 of the Revised ...

...For the relief of persons who are permanently and totally disabled as the result of injury or disease sustained in the course of their employment and who are receiving workers' compensation which is payable to them by virtue of and under the laws of this state in amounts, the total of which, when combined with disability benefits received pursuant to the Social Security Act is less than three hundred forty-two dollar...

...To be eligible to participate in said fund, a participant must be permanently and totally disabled and be receiving workers' compensation payments, the total of which, when combined with disability benefits received pursuant to The Social Security Act is less than three hundred forty-two dollars per month adjusted annually as provided in division (B) of section 4123.62 of the Revised Code.

...Each person determined eligible, pursuant to section 4123.413 of the Revised Code, to participate in the disabled workers' relief fund is entitled to receive payments, without application, from the fund of a monthly amount equal to the lesser of the difference between three hundred forty-two dollars, adjusted annually pursuant to division (B) of section 4123.62 of the Revised Code, and: (1) The amount he is receivin...

...Payments to a participant may be made from the disabled workers' relief fund by separate check or may be made from said fund and from the state insurance fund by one check, but each such check on two funds shall be so written as to show plainly the payments made from each fund. No disbursement shall be made from the state insurance fund on account of any provision of sections 4123.412 to 4123.415 of the Revised Code.

...The administrator of workers' compensation shall promptly require of each employer who has elected to pay compensation direct under the provisions of section 4123.35 of the Revised Code a verified list of the names and addresses of all persons to whom the employer is paying workers' compensation on account of permanent and total disability and the evidence respecting such persons as the administrator reasonably deems...

...ued by the administrator relative to an individual's right to participate in the disabled workers' relief fund is appealable pursuant to section 4123.511 of the Revised Code but is not appealable to court under section 4123.512 of the Revised Code. No attorney, representative, or agent of any claimant or participant is entitled to charge or receive a fee or compensation or gratuity in any form for representing or ass...

...The administrator of workers' compensation shall employ employees as is necessary to the discharge of the administrator's duties and responsibilities hereunder. The salaries and expenses of the employees shall be paid by the treasurer of the state from the fund created by section 4123.412 of the Revised Code as provided in section 4123.42 of the Revised Code.

...espect to claims related to private and public taxing district employers, rather than levying an assessment against those employers under section 4123.411 of the Revised Code.