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...No compensation shall be allowed for the first week after an injury is received or occupational disease contracted and no compensation shall be allowed for the first week of total disability, whenever it may occur, unless and until the employee is totally disabled for a continuous period of two weeks or more, in which event compensation for the first week of total disability, whenever it has occurred, shall be paid, ...

...(A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, in the case of temporary disability, an employee shall receive sixty-six and two-thirds per cent of the employee's average weekly wage so long as such disability is total, not to exceed a maximum amount of weekly compensation which is equal to the statewide average weekly wage as defined in division (C) of section 4123.62 of the Revised Code, and not less than a...

...Partial disability compensation shall be paid as follows. Except as provided in this section, not earlier than twenty-six weeks after the date of termination of the latest period of payments under section 4123.56 of the Revised Code or twenty-six weeks after the termination of wages in lieu of those payments, or not earlier than twenty-six weeks after the date of the injury or contraction of an occupational disease...

...In connection with the procedural and remedial rights of employees, all claims which have accrued prior to the effective date of this act, whether or not an application for claim has been filed, or whether or not jurisdiction has been established or whether 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 pro...

...(A) In cases of permanent total disability, the employee shall receive an award to continue until the employee's death in the amount of sixty-six and two-thirds per cent of the employee's average weekly wage, but, except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, not more than a maximum amount of weekly compensation which is equal to sixty-six and two-thirds per cent of the statewide average weekly wage a...

...In case an injury to or an occupational disease contracted by an employee causes the employee's death, benefits shall be in the amount and to the persons following: (A) If there are no dependents, the disbursements from the state insurance fund is limited to the expenses provided for in section 4123.66 of the Revised Code. (B) If there are wholly dependent persons at the time of the death, the weekly payment is six...

...The administrator of workers' compensation may furnish quarterly, to the tax commissioner, in a format approved by the tax commissioner, a list containing the name and social security number of any person receiving spousal death benefits. Upon receipt of this list, the commissioner shall return to the administrator, in a format designed by the commissioner, information identifying any person listed by the administrat...

...Benefits in case of death shall be paid to such one or more of the dependents of the decedent, for the benefit of all the dependents as the administrator of workers' compensation determines. The administrator may apportion the benefits among the dependents in such manner as he deems just and equitable. Payment to a dependent subsequent in right may be made, if the administrator deems it proper, and operates to discha...

...The average weekly wage of an injured employee at the time of the injury or at the time disability due to the occupational disease begins is the basis upon which to compute benefits. In cases of temporary total disability the compensation for the first twelve weeks for which compensation is payable shall be based on the full weekly wage of the claimant at the time of the injury or at the time of the disability d...

...(A) If it is established that an injured or disabled employee was of such age and experience 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...

...ction 4123.35 of the Revised Code. The records of any agency of the United States authorized to keep or preserve the records of service of persons in active service in the armed forces of the United States at any time during a period of war as defined in the "Veterans' Pension and Readjustment Assistance Act of 1967," 81 Stat. 181, 38 U.S.C.A. 101 or the period beginning May 1, 1940, and ending December 7, 1941, or ...

...(A) The administrator of workers' compensation, under special circumstances, 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 t...

...e employee and to the representative of record of the employer and of the employee immediately upon the filing. An application filed by the administrator shall contain all of the information and signatures required of an employer or an employee who files an application under this division. Every self-insuring employer that enters into a final settlement agreement with an employee shall mail, within seven days of exec...

...for the release of medical information, records, and reports relative to the issues necessary 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 provi...

...(A) In addition to the compensation provided for in this chapter, the administrator of workers' compensation shall disburse and pay from the state insurance fund the amounts for medical, nurse, and hospital services and medicine as the administrator deems proper and, in case death ensues from the injury or occupational disease, the administrator shall disburse and pay from the fund reasonable funeral expenses in an a...

...Except as otherwise provided in sections 3119.80, 3119.81, 3121.02, 3121.03, and 3123.06 of the Revised Code, compensation before payment shall be exempt from all claims of creditors and from any attachment or execution, and shall be paid only to the employees or their dependents. In all cases where property of an employer is placed in the hands of an assignee, receiver, or trustee, claims arising under any award o...

...Every employee who is disabled because of the contraction of an occupational disease or the dependent of an employee whose death is caused by an occupational disease, is entitled to the compensation provided by sections 4123.55 to 4123.59 and 4123.66 of the Revised Code subject to the modifications relating to occupational diseases contained in this chapter. An order of the administrator issued under this section is ...

...Every employee mentioned in section 4123.68 of the Revised Code and the dependents and the employer or employers of such employee shall be entitled 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, authori...

...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 ...

...Every physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner in this state attending on or called in to visit a patient whom the physician or nurse believes to have an occupational disease as defined in section 4123.68 of the Revised Code shall, within forty-eight hours from the time of making such diagnosis, send to the bureau of workers' compensation a report stating: (A) N...

...Any employer who employs less than three employees regularly in the same business, or in or about the same establishment, 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 ...

...Employers who comply with section 4123.35 of the Revised Code shall not be liable to respond in damages at common law or by statute for any injury, or occupational disease, or bodily condition, received or contracted by any employee in the course of or arising out of his employment, or for any death resulting from such injury, occupational disease, or bodily condition occurring during the period covered by such premi...

...No employee of any employer, as defined in division (B) of section 4123.01 of the Revised Code, shall be liable to respond in damages at common law or by statute for any injury or occupational disease, received or contracted by any other employee of such employer in the course of and arising out of the latter employee's employment, or for any death resulting from such injury or occupational disease, on the condition ...

...e plaintiff to set forth a copy of the record of proceedings of the commission or bureau relative to the claims certified by the administrator to the attorney general and to state that there is due to plaintiff on account of the finding and award of the commission or bureau a specified sum which plaintiff claims with interest. A certified copy of the record of proceedings in the claim shall be attached to the ...

...Any nonresident person, firm, or corporation of this state who engages in any activity or maintains any establishment in this state so as to be an employer, as defined in division (B) of section 4123.01 of the Revised Code, or any resident of this state, being an employer as so defined, who has engaged in any such activity or maintained any such establishment in this state, who subsequently becomes a nonresident or c...