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Can Enhanced Care Reduce Claim Costs?
Can Enhanced Care Reduce Claim Costs?

It’s amazing what you learn when you ask the right questions. We have been asking this question for four years in the belief that a better educated injured worker who is provided peer-to-peer coaching through […]
Do You Know the Rule? ‘Family Members’ Entitled to Death Benefits in Ohio
Do You Know the Rule? ‘Family Members’ Entitled to Death Benefits in Ohio

Columbus, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In Ohio, not everyone who was in a relationship with a deceased worker is considered a family member potentially entitled to death benefits under the state’s workers’ compensation laws. On the […]
Personal Nature of Argument Over Kids Makes Workers’ Ensuing Injury Non-compensable
Personal Nature of Argument Over Kids Makes Workers’ Ensuing Injury Non-compensable

Dayton, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) – In Ohio, an employee must clear two hurdles to show that a fight-related injury at work arose out her employment. The city worker in Dayton v. Parson, No. 29353. (Ohio App. […]
Statute of Limitation Washes Out Ohio Worker’s Claim for Allowance
Statute of Limitation Washes Out Ohio Worker’s Claim for Allowance

Columbus, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Time is money, they say, and that's true when it comes to filing a court claim regarding a workers' compensation case. As a worker discovered in Caldwell v. Whirlpool Corp., 2023 […]
Glossary Check: Ohio Subrogation
Glossary Check: Ohio Subrogation

Columbus, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) -- According to Black's Law Dictionary, subrogation is the substitution of one thing or another, or of one person into the place of another with respect to rights, claims, or securities. Subrogation […]