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Ohio
Industrial Commission Issues New Maximum Medical Improvement Policy
The Industrial Commission has issued Hearing Officer
Manual Memo No. C.9, dated May 8, 2000. The new policy indicates that a
decision on whether the injured worker's condition has reached Maximum
Medical Improvement ("MMI") can take place when 1) the injured worker
is on Temporary Total ("TT") at the time a party files a request that
the claimant be found to have reached MMI and/or 2) when the claimant
is on TT at the time of the hearing.
Where the claimant was not on TT either at the time of
the request to find MMI, or at the time of the hearing, there shall be
no determination on MMI.
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