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...The treasurer of state shall be custodian of the state insurance fund, the occupational disease fund. The treasurer shall pay disbursements from the funds upon warrants drawn by the bureau of workers' compensation and signed by the administrator of workers' compensation. The warrants may bear the facsimile signature of the administrator printed thereon, or the facsimile signature printed thereon of the employee o...

...The treasurer of state may deposit any portion of the state insurance fund not needed for immediate use in the same manner as and subject to all the laws with respect to the deposit of state funds by the treasurer of state. All interest earned by such portion of the state insurance funds as is deposited under this section shall be collected by the treasurer of state and placed to the credit of such fund.

...The members of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, the administrator of workers' compensation, and the bureau of workers' compensation chief investment officer are the trustees of the state insurance fund. The administrator, in accordance with sections 4121.126 and 4121.127 of the Revised Code and the investment policy approved by the board pursuant to section 4121.12 of the Revised Code, and in c...

...vised Code, from misusing material, nonpublic information in violation of those laws, rules, and regulations. For purposes of this division, no bureau of workers' compensation chief investment officer shall be considered to have failed to satisfy the officer's duty of reasonable supervision if the officer has done all of the following: (1) Adopted and implemented written procedures, and a system for applying ...

... the assets of those funds, directly or indirectly, in vehicles that target any of the following: (1) Coins; (2) Artwork; (3) Horses; (4) Jewelry or gems; (5) Stamps; (6) Antiques; (7) Artifacts; (8) Collectibles; (9) Memorabilia; (10) Similar unregulated investments that are not commonly part of an institutional portfolio, that lack liquidity, and that lack readily determinable valuation. (C) S...

... bureau of workers' compensation or the industrial commission to or for the benefit of the state insurance fund for each building owned by the bureau that was constructed or acquired as an investment in productive real estate, shall be made pursuant to a lease agreement for a term that shall not exceed two years. Beginning July 1, 1991, the rental payments to be made under each such lease agreement shall include the ...

...(A) As used in this section and section 4123.445 of the Revised Code: (1) "Bureau of workers' compensation funds" means any fund specified in Chapter 4121., 4123., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code that the administrator of workers' compensation has the authority to invest, in accordance with the administrator's investment authority under section 4123.44 of the Revised Code. (2) "Investment manager" means any per...

...(A) The administrator of workers' compensation shall not enter into a contract with an investment manager for the investment of assets of the bureau of workers' compensation funds if any employee of that investment manager who will be investing assets of bureau of workers' compensation funds has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a financial or investment crime. (B) An investment manager who has entered into a c...

...lity company, or joint venture of any kind, that is owned and controlled by women who are United States citizens and residents of this state. (B) The administrator of workers' compensation shall submit annually to the governor and to the general assembly (under section 101.68 of the Revised Code) a report containing the following information: (1) The name of each investment manager that is a minority busine...

...All bonds of any taxing district of this state purchased by the administrator of workers' compensation shall be printed or lithographed upon paper of the size required by the administrator. Interest coupons on the bonds shall be attached to the bonds in a manner required by the administrator. The principal and interest of the bonds shall be payable at the office of the treasurer of state. The bonds shall be of the d...

...As used in this section, "ridesharing arrangement" means the transportation of persons in a motor vehicle where such transportation is incidental to another purpose of a volunteer driver and includes ridesharing arrangements known as carpools, vanpools, and buspools. No compensation shall be allowed under this chapter for any employee injured while participating in a ridesharing arrangement between his place of resi...

...(A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, the bureau of workers' compensation shall disburse the state insurance fund to employees of employers who have paid into the fund the premiums applicable to the classes to which they belong when the employees have been injured in the course of their employment, wherever the injuries have occurred, and provided the injuries have not been purposely self-infl...

...e administration of this chapter by the industrial commission and the bureau of workers' compensation and the safety and hygiene fund. The cost of the audit shall be charged to the administrative costs of the bureau as defined in section 4123.341 of the Revised Code. The audit shall include audits of all fiscal activities, claims processing and handling, and employer premium collections. The auditor shall prepa...

...owing the amount of money paid into the public insurance fund and the amount of losses incurred against the fund. When any default is made in the payment of the sums required to be contributed to the public insurance fund, or when any official fails to perform any act required to be performed by him in reference to the making of payments, the administrator of workers' compensation shall institute the proper proceedin...

...ach private corporation, including any public service corporation mentioned in section 4123.01 of the Revised Code or publicly owned utility, shall cause the firm or corporation to comply with section 4123.35 of the Revised Code and, for self-insuring employers, to comply with the assessment based upon paid compensation provisions of this chapter and Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code. No person mentioned in se...

... bureau of workers' compensation or the industrial commission, within the required statutory period, and is considered received for the purpose of processing the claims or appeals. The administrator, on the form an employee or an individual acting on behalf of the employee files with the administrator or a self-insuring employer to initiate a claim under this chapter or Chapter 4121., 4127., or 4131. of the Re...

...o or the president of the United States publicly declares an emergency and orders state or federal assistance to save lives and protect property, the public health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe. (2) "Disaster" means any natural catastrophe or fire, flood, or explosion, regardless of the cause, that causes damage of sufficient magnitude that the governor of Ohio or the president of th...

...the employer may appeal an order of the industrial commission made under division (E) of section 4123.511 of the Revised Code in any injury or occupational disease case, other than a decision as to the extent of disability to the court of common pleas of the county in which the injury was inflicted or in which the contract of employment was made if the injury occurred outside the state, or in which the contract of em...

...(A) The jurisdiction of the industrial commission and the authority of the administrator of workers' compensation over each case is continuing, and the commission may make such modification or change with respect to former findings or orders with respect thereto, as, in its opinion is justified. No modification or change nor any finding or award in respect of any claim shall be made with respect to disability, compen...

...ase of an appeal by the employer to the industrial commission or to a court of common pleas, if upon deciding such appeal the commission or the court shall find that the employer appealed for the purpose of delay or other vexatious reason and without reasonable ground, the commission or the court may assess against the employer such sum not exceeding seven hundred and fifty dollars and not exceeding ten per cent of t...

...e until the notice is received from the industrial commission or its district or staff hearing officers, the administrator, or the bureau of workers' compensation by both the employee and his representative of record, both the employer and his representative of record, and by both the administrator and his representative. If any person to whom a notice is mailed fails to receive the notice and the commission, upon h...

...strator of workers' compensation or the industrial commission may require any employee claiming the right to receive compensation to submit to a medical examination, vocational evaluation, or vocational questionnaire at any time, and from time to time, at a place reasonably convenient for the employee, and as provided by the rules of the commission or the administrator of workers' compensation. A claimant required by...

... is documented by objective diagnostic findings, objective clinical findings, or objective test results, no compensation or benefits are payable because of the pre-existing condition once that condition has returned to a level that would have existed without the injury. (H)(1) Whenever, with respect to an employee of an employer who is subject to and has complied with this chapter, there is possibility of conflict ...

...In the event that any person who is entitled to receive benefits for total disability, loss of member, or death through the application of section 4123.033 of the Revised Code, receives, in connection with the injury giving rise to such entitlement, benefits under an act of congress or federal program providing benefits for civil defense workers and their survivors, the benefits payable hereunder, shall be reduced in...

...An employee or the dependents of an employee who receive a decision on the merits of a claim for compensation or benefits under this chapter or Chapter 4121., 4127., or 4131. of the Revised Code shall not file a claim for the same injury, occupational disease, or death in another state under the workers' compensation laws of that state. Except as otherwise provided in division (H) of section 4123.54 of the Revi...