Compliance Corner Quick quiz: Can ministers in Ohio receive workers' compensation benefits? That's some information that Simply Research subscribers have at their fingertips, but we take a sneak peek here. Exclusion from Coverage Ohio law […]

Case File How specific does an Ohio hearing officer need to be to satisfy state law requiring consideration of a worker's psychiatric conditions? The state's top court found that relying on what the doctors said […]

Safety at Work The family of an employee killed at a Toledo, Ohio, Jeep plant has filed a lawsuit alleging that safety features protecting employees were removed. According to court records, the family of Antonio […]

The “exclusive remedy” rule is not the only thing that can stop an employee from suing a company for negligence when the company has workers’ compensation coverage. An Ohio case involving an employee who said […]

The Trained A-Eye An injured worker thought he was citing solid case law in support of his claims against his employer and its insurer, but AI led him astray -- and drew the court's ire. […]

What Do You Think? Employees generally can’t sue employers for monetary damages in court. Workers’ compensation is the exclusive remedy, in most cases, and tends to zap those cases right out of court. But consider […]

Quick Hits In Ohio, as Simply Research subscribers know, each employer paying premiums into the state insurance fund or electing directly to pay compensation to the employer's injured employees or the dependents of the employer's […]

What Do You Think? In Ohio, work, for purposes of total temporary disability compensation, doesn't always require that the worker is getting paid. A case involving an injured Big Lots employee who received TTD benefits […]