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...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 ...

...al commission or the bureau of workers' compensation for compensation and the administrator of workers' compensation shall determine the application for compensation in like manner as in other claims and shall make an award to the claimant as he would be entitled to receive if the employer had complied with section 4123.35 of the Revised Code. Payment of the claim shall be made promptly from the statutory surplu...

...roceeding 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 disease as defined in this chapter, occurring within this state and involving employment in the activity or within the maintenance of the establishment.

...Service of process under section 4123.751 of the Revised Code shall be served by the officer to whom the same shall be directed or by the sheriff of Franklin county, who may be deputized for such purposes by the officer to whom the service is directed, upon the secretary of state 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 ...

...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.

...A court in which an action is pending pursuant to service of process under sections 4123.751 and 4123.752 of the Revised Code may order such continuance as may be necessary to afford the defendant reasonable opportunity to appear and defend the action.

...Sections 4123.751 to 4123.754, inclusive, of the Revised Code shall be construed to extend the right of service of process upon nonresidents and upon residents who subsequently become nonresidents or who conceal their whereabouts or, after due diligence, whose whereabouts cannot be ascertained and no forwarding address can be found, and shall not be construed as limiting any provisions for the service or process now ...

...roceeding before the bureau of workers' compensation or industrial commission, such sections shall likewise apply to any executor or administrator or the employer, and the employer shall be deemed to have constituted the secretary of state as his agent for such purpose, and the agency shall not terminate by reason of the death of the employer.

... industrial commission or the bureau of workers' compensation under section 4123.75 of the Revised Code against an employer who has not complied with section 4123.35 of the Revised Code, the bureau shall make and file for record in the office of the county recorder in the counties where the employer's property is located, an affidavit showing the date on which the application was filed with the commission or th...

...Private employers who fail to comply with section 4123.35 of the Revised Code are not entitled to the benefits of sections 4123.01 to 4123.94, inclusive, of the Revised Code, during the period of such noncompliance, but are liable to their employees for damages suffered by reason of personal injuries sustained in the course of employment caused by the wrongful act, neglect, or default of the employer, or any of the ...

...rules of the administrator of workers' compensation, the administrator shall file with the county recorder of any counties in which the employer's property is located, its certificate of the amount of premium due from the employer, and that amount shall be a lien from the date of filing against the real property and personal property of the employer within the county in which the certificate is filed. The coun...

... the employer's premium to the workers' compensation fund as prescribed in this chapter. The procedure to obtain an injunction is governed by Chapter 2727. of the Revised Code and the right to such relief is in addition to the rights described in section 2727.02 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) No construction contractor or subcontractor who, on the date of entering into a construction contract has not been in compliance...

...loyee's blindness. The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, may adopt and enforce rules governing the employment of such persons and the inspection of their places of employment. (B) An employee may waive the employee's rights to compensation or benefits as authorized pursuant to division (C)(3) of section 4123.01 or sectio...

...No employer shall deduct any portion of the premium paid by such employer into the state insurance fund from the wages or salary of any employee entitled to the benefits of sections 4123.01 to 4123.94, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...isease occasioned in the course of the workers' employment, or which provide that the insurer shall pay the compensation, or which indemnify the employer against damages when the injury, disease, or death arises from the failure to comply with any lawful requirement for the protection of the lives, health, and safety of employees, or when the same is occasioned by the willful act of the employer or any of the ...

...hed at least annually by the bureau of workers' compensation. The notice shall state that it is proof of workers' compensation coverage, or that the employer has complied with section 4123.35 of the Revised Code and has been authorized by the administrator of workers' compensation directly to compensate employees or dependents, and the date of the authorization. The notice shall indicate that coverage is conti...

... industrial commission or the bureau of workers' compensation; (2) The employer, with knowledge of a claimed compensable injury or occupational disease, has paid wages in lieu of compensation for total disability; (3) In the event the employer is a self-insuring employer, one of the following has occurred: (a) Written or facsimile notice of the specific part or parts of the body claimed to have been injured has...

... industrial commission or the bureau of workers' compensation or to the employer if the employer is a self-insuring employer.

...(A) The administrator of workers' compensation shall prepare a report containing the following information regarding presumed cancer claims under division (D)(3)(b) of section 742.38 and division (X) of section 4123.68 of the Revised Code: (1) The number of approved claims; (2) The number of disapproved claims; (3) The number of active claims; (4) The cost related to claims described in divisions (A)(1) and (3) o...

...therewith before the bureau of workers' compensation or the industrial commission or its district or staff hearing officers. No person shall, without prior authority from the bureau, a member of the commission, the claimant, or the employer, examine or directly or indirectly cause or employ another person to examine any claim file or any other file pertaining thereto. No person shall forge an authorization for the pu...

...ll have any cause of action or right to compensation for an injury to the minor employee, but in the event of the award of a lump sum of compensation to the minor employee, the sum shall be paid to the legally appointed guardian of the minor or in accordance with section 2111.05 of the Revised Code. When it is found upon hearing by the industrial commission that an injury, occupational disease, or death of a minor w...

...The bureau of workers' compensation, industrial commission, or any other body constituted by the statutes of this state, or any court of this state, in awarding compensation to the dependents of employees, or others killed in Ohio, shall not make any discrimination against the widows, children, or other dependents who reside in a foreign country. The bureau, commission, or any other board or court, in determining th...

...mployees so that the bureau of workers' compensation may transmit to the dependents the funds provided for in this chapter.

...ssion or the administrator of workers' compensation, the attorney general, or under the attorney general's direction the prosecuting attorney of any county in cases arising within the county, shall institute and prosecute the necessary actions or proceedings for the enforcement of this chapter, or for the recovery of any money due the state insurance fund, or any penalty, and shall defend in like manner all su...

...ry subrogee" means the administrator of workers' compensation, a self-insuring employer, or an employer that contracts for the direct payment of medical services pursuant to division (P) of section 4121.44 of the Revised Code. (C) "Third party" means an individual, private insurer, public or private entity, or public or private program that is or may be liable to make payments to a person without regard to any statu...