Employer Cases: Miscellaneous

(Supreme Court)

Click on the case name to read the decision on the 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.

Baltimore Ravens, Inc. v. Self-Insuring Emp. Evaluation Bd. (3/27/02)

Decisions of Self-Insuring Employers Evaluation Board cannot be appealed to court under R.C. 119.12.

Vote: 6-1
Opinion by: Justice Resnick

Crosset Co., State ex rel. v. Conrad (1/19/00)

Court holds that a company which buys the assets of a foreclosed company from an intermediary bank is not responsible for the foreclosed company's workers' compensation claim costs incurred under a retrospective-rating plan.

Vote: 5-2
Opinion by: Justice Douglas

Fairfield City Schools, State ex rel. v. Indus. Comm. (5/24/11)

Commission did not abuse its discretion by finding that employer was not entitled to handicap reimbursement because employee's hypertension did not qualify as a cardiac disease.

Vote: 7-0
Opinion by: Per Curiam

Health Care Facilities, Inc., State ex rel. v. Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation (1/7/98)

Where self-insured employer bought assets of another employer, but was not a succeeding employer and did not merge, the self-insurer was not required to buy-out the other employer from the state insurance fund.

Vote: 7-0
Opinion by: Per Curiam

Occidental Chem. Corp., State ex rel. v. Ohio Bur. of Workers' Comp. (4/11/01)

When an employer switches its status from self-insured to state fund (or from state fund to self-insured), the employer's status at the time of the injury (or injurious exposure, if occupational disease) determines whether claim is to be paid from state fund or by self-insurer.

Vote: 7-0
Opinion by: Per Curiam

Employer Cases: Miscellaneous

(Supreme Court)

Baltimore Ravens, Inc. v. Self-Insuring Emp. Evaluation Bd. (3/27/02)

Decisions of Self-Insuring Employers Evaluation Board cannot be appealed to court under R.C. 119.12.

Vote: 6-1Opinion by: Justice Resnick

Crosset Co., State ex rel. v. Conrad (1/19/00)

Court holds that a company which buys the assets of a foreclosed company from an intermediary bank is not responsible for the foreclosed company's workers' compensation claim costs incurred under a retrospective-rating plan.

Vote: 5-2Opinion by: Justice Douglas

Fairfield City Schools, State ex rel. v. Indus. Comm. (5/24/11)

Commission did not abuse its discretion by finding that employer was not entitled to handicap reimbursement because employee's hypertension did not qualify as a cardiac disease.

Vote: 7-0Opinion by: Per Curiam

Health Care Facilities, Inc., State ex rel. v. Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation (1/7/98)

Where self-insured employer bought assets of another employer, but was not a succeeding employer and did not merge, the self-insurer was not required to buy-out the other employer from the state insurance fund.

Vote: 7-0Opinion by: Per Curiam

Occidental Chem. Corp., State ex rel. v. Ohio Bur. of Workers' Comp. (4/11/01)

When an employer switches its status from self-insured to state fund (or from state fund to self-insured), the employer's status at the time of the injury (or injurious exposure, if occupational disease) determines whether claim is to be paid from state fund or by self-insurer.

Vote: 7-0Opinion by: Per Curiam

Injured at Work?

Vote: 6-1
Opinion by: Justice Resnick

Vote: 5-2
Opinion by: Justice Douglas

Vote: 7-0
Opinion by: Per Curiam

Vote: 7-0
Opinion by: Per Curiam

Vote: 7-0
Opinion by: Per Curiam