Average Weekly Wage Cases: Special Circumstances
(Court of Appeals)
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Ohio Supreme Court's web site. Decisions which adopt the
decision of a lower court or
Magistrate, or which decide a case based on a previous decision, are
excluded.
Fact
that injury occurred shortly after worker returned to job market after
staying home with her children justified application of special
circumstances provision to recalculate average weekly wage.
Vote: 3-0
Opinion by: J udge Sadler
Appellate District: 10
Time
claimant voluntarily spent not working in order to remodel a house does
not constitute special circumstances which justify recalculating
average weekly wage.
Vote: 3-0
Opinion by: Judge Brown
Appellate District: 10
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