Ohio Revised Code Chapter 4123 - Workers' Compensation

• Section 4123.01 - Workers' Compensation Definitions.
  As used in this chapter: (A) (1) "Employee" means: (a) Every person in the service of the state, or of any county, municipal corporation,...
• Section 4123.02 - Policemen And Firemen Excepted.
  This chapter does not apply to policemen or firemen in municipal corporations where the injured policemen or firemen are eligible to participate in any...
• Section 4123.021 - State Active Duty Defined.
  As used in sections 4123.021 to 4123.024, inclusive, of the Revised Code: "State active duty" means that status attaching to a member of the...
• Section 4123.022 - Employment Status While On Active Duty.
  Every member of the Ohio organized militia as defined in section 5923.01 of the Revised Code shall, when called to state active duty, be...
• Section 4123.023 - Benefits For Members Of Organized Militia.
  For the purpose of determining benefits accruing under section 4123.57 of the Revised Code, a member of the Ohio organized militia shall qualify for...
• Section 4123.024 - Administrative And Other Costs To Be Paid From State Insurance Fund.
  Sections 4123.021 to 4123.024 and 4123.031 to 4123.037 of the Revised Code shall be administered by the bureau of workers' compensation. Administrative and other...
• Section 4123.025 - Benefits For One Killed Performing Request Or Order Of A Duly Authorized Public Official.
  Any person, other than those covered by section 4123.03 of the Revised Code, who is injured, and the dependents of a deceased employee who...
• Section 4123.026 - Costs Of Post-exposure Medical Diagnostic Services After Peace Officer, Firefighter, Or Emergency Medical Worker's Exposure To Blood Or Other Body Fluid.
  (A) The administrator of workers' compensation, or a self-insuring public employer for the peace officers, firefighters, and emergency medical workers employed by or volunteering...
• Section 4123.03 - Employees Performing Special Services For The State Or A Political Subdivision.
  If the state or any political subdivision thereof, including any county, township, municipal corporation, school district, and any institution or agency of the state,...
• Section 4123.031 - Emergency Management Worker Definitions.
  As used in sections 4123.031 to 4123.037 of the Revised Code: (A) "Emergency management worker" means anyone who has been duly registered for service...
• Section 4123.032 - Benefits For Emergency Management Workers.
  Every emergency management worker shall, with respect to the performance of his duties as such emergency management worker, be in the employment of the...
• Section 4123.033 - Compensation For Accidental Injury While Performing Emergency Management Duties.
  Any emergency management worker who suffers an accidental injury while performing emergency management duties, as defined herein, shall be compensated for any total disability...
• Section 4123.034 - Unpaid Emergency Management Workers Qualify For Maximum Benefits.
  For the purpose of determining benefits accruing under section 4123.033 of the Revised Code, an emergency management worker who receives no monetary compensation for...
• Section 4123.035 - Finality Of Decision As To Emergency Management Claimants.
  The decision of the industrial commission as to all facts, except questions of dependency and whether the accident occurred in the course of claimant's...
• Section 4123.036 - Participation In Emergency Management Benefits.
  (A) An emergency management worker, in order to be included under sections 4123.031 to 4123.037 of the Revised Code, and to participate in the...
• Section 4123.037 - Loyalty Oath For Emergency Management Workers.
  (A) Sections 4123.01 to 4123.94 of the Revised Code shall inure to the benefit of those emergency management workers who have previously complied with...
• Section 4123.038 - Apprentice Definitions.
  As used in this section and section 4123.039 of the Revised Code: (A) "Apprentice" and "apprenticeship agreement" have the meaning defined in section 4111.25...
• Section 4123.039 - Eligibility For Benefits Of Apprentices.
  For the purposes of sections 4123.038 and 4123.039 of the Revised Code, every apprentice with respect to his related and supplemental instructions, and every...
• Section 4123.04 - Application To Intrastate, Interstate And Foreign Commerce.
  This chapter applies to employers and their employees engaged in intrastate commerce and also in interstate and foreign commerce, for whom a rule of...
• Section 4123.05 - Rules.
  The bureau of workers' compensation shall adopt rules to regulate and provide for the kind and character of notices, and the services thereof, in...
• Section 4123.06 - Rules Regarding Fees.
  The industrial commission shall adopt rules concerning the payment of attorney's fees and shall protect parties against unfair fees. The commission shall fix the...
• Section 4123.07 - Bureau To Prepare And Furnish Application Forms.
  The administrator of the bureau of workers' compensation shall prepare and furnish blank forms of application for benefits or compensation from the state insurance...
• Section 4123.08 - Powers Of Officers In Administrative Proceedings.
  Each member of the industrial commission, and its deputies, supervisors, directors, and secretaries, appointed by the commission, and employees of the bureau of workers'...
• Section 4123.09 - Depositions.
  In claims filed before the industrial commission or the bureau of workers' compensation by injured employees and the dependents of killed employees on account...
• Section 4123.10 - Industrial Commission Not Bound By Rules Of Evidence.
  The industrial commission shall not be bound by the usual common law or statutory rules of evidence or by any technical or formal rules...
• Section 4123.11 - Stenographer's Copy Received In Evidence.
  A transcribed copy of the evidence and proceedings, or any specific part thereof, or any investigation, by a stenographer appointed by the industrial commission,...
• Section 4123.12 - Attachment Proceeding To Compel Obedience.
  In case any person fails to comply with an order of the industrial commission or subpoena issued by the commission or its secretary or...
• Section 4123.13 - Fees Of Officers And Witnesses.
  Each officer who serves a subpoena issued under section 4123.08 of the Revised Code shall receive the same fees as a sheriff, and each...
• Section 4123.14 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-20-1993
• Section 4123.15 - Recognized Religious Sect Employer May Apply For Exemption.
  (A) An employer who is a member of a recognized religious sect or division of a recognized religious sect and who is an adherent...
• Section 4123.151 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 11-02-1959
• Section 4123.16 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-05-1955
• Section 4123.17 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 4121.37.
  Effective Date: 01-17-1977
• Section 4123.18 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-05-1955
• Section 4123.181 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-27-1979
• Section 4123.19 - Expenditures To Establish Rate Classes - Salaries And Compensation Paid By Warrant.
  The bureau of workers' compensation may make necessary expenditures to obtain statistical and other information to establish the classes provided for in section 4123.29...
• Section 4123.20 - Publication And Distribution Of Classifications, Rates, And Rules Of Procedure.
  The administrator of workers' compensation shall make available electronically to the public, its classifications, rates, rules, and rules of procedure, and shall furnish the...
• Section 4123.21 - Injunction Shall Not Issue Suspending Or Restraining Actions.
  No injunction shall issue suspending or restraining any order, classification, or rate adopted by the industrial commission or the bureau of workers' compensation, or...
• Section 4123.22 - Annual Report.
  The administrator of workers' compensation shall prepare and publish annually a complete report of the bureau of workers' compensation's and the industrial commission's operations...
• Section 4123.23 - Inspection Of Books, Records, And Payrolls.
  All books, records, and payrolls of the employers of the state, showing or reflecting in any way upon the amount of wage expenditure of...
• Section 4123.24 - Payroll To Be Kept.
  Every employer amenable to this chapter shall keep, preserve, and maintain complete records showing in detail all expenditures for payroll and the division of...
• Section 4123.25 - Misrepresentation As To Amount Or Classification Of Payroll Or Amount Of Compensation Paid.
  (A) No employer shall knowingly misrepresent to the bureau of workers' compensation the amount or classification of payroll upon which the premium under this...
• Section 4123.26 - Annual Statement By Employer - Forfeiture.
  (A) Every employer shall keep records of, and furnish to the bureau of workers' compensation upon request, all information required by the administrator of...
• Section 4123.27 - Use Of And Access To Information Provided By Employers.
  Information contained in the payroll report provided for in section 4123.26 of the Revised Code, and such other information as may be furnished to...
• Section 4123.271 - Administrator May Request Report Of Employer Payments From Tax Commissioner.
  The administrator of workers' compensation may furnish to the tax commissioner, on a quarterly basis, a list in a format approved by the tax...
• Section 4123.28 - Record Of Injuries And Occupational Diseases - Report.
  Every employer in this state shall keep a record of all injuries and occupational diseases, fatal or otherwise, received or contracted by his employees...
• Section 4123.29 - Duties Of Administrator.
  (A) The administrator of workers' compensation, subject to the approval of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall do all of the...
• Section 4123.291 - Appeal From Adjudicating Committee Decisions.
  (A) An adjudicating committee appointed by the administrator of workers' compensation to hear any matter specified in divisions (B)(1) to (7) of this section...
• Section 4123.292 - Election To Obtain Other-states' Coverage.
  (A) Notwithstanding sections 4123.35 and 4123.82 of the Revised Code, an employer may elect to obtain other-states' coverage through an other-states' insurer or, if...
• Section 4123.30 - Public Fund - Private Fund - Contributions - Disbursements.
  Money contributed by the employers mentioned in division (B)(1) of section 4123.01 of the Revised Code constitutes the "public fund" and the money contributed...
• Section 4123.31 - Workers' Compensation Fund.
  The moneys in the state treasury for the use of the bureau of workers' compensation and the industrial commission shall be known as the...
• Section 4123.311 - Direct Deposit Of Funds By Electronic Transfer - Debit Card Access.
  (A) The administrator of workers' compensation may do all of the following: (1) Utilize direct deposit of funds by electronic transfer for all disbursements...
• Section 4123.32 - Rules For Administering State Insurance Fund.
  The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt rules with respect...
• Section 4123.321 - Disposition Of Insurance Fund Excess Surplus.
  The bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, based upon recommendations of the workers' compensation actuarial committee, shall adopt a rule with respect to...
• Section 4123.322 - Rules For System Of Prospective Payment Of Workers' Compensation Premiums.
  (A) The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, shall adopt rules establishing...
• Section 4123.323 - Payment Due Dates.
  (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, a payment required under this chapter or Chapter 4121. of the Revised Code, including...
• Section 4123.33 - Certificate Of Protection For Period Of Less Than One Year.
  Where, in the judgment of the administrator of workers' compensation, the circumstances justify or require a certificate entitling an employer to protection under this...
• Section 4123.34 - Solvency Of Funds - Premium Rates.
  It shall be the duty of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors and the administrator of workers' compensation to safeguard and maintain...
• Section 4123.341 - Contributions Toward Payment Of Administrative Costs And Expenses.
  The administrative costs of the industrial commission, the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, and the bureau of workers' compensation shall be those...
• Section 4123.342 - Allocating Costs.
  (A) The administrator of workers' compensation shall allocate among counties and taxing districts therein as a class, the state and its instrumentalities as a...
• Section 4123.343 - Employing And Retaining Handicapped Employees.
  This section shall be construed liberally to the end that employers shall be encouraged to employ and retain in their employment handicapped employees as...
• Section 4123.35 - Payment Of Premiums By Employers.
  (A) Except as provided in this section, and until the policy year commencing July 1, 2015, every private employer and every publicly owned utility...
• Section 4123.351 - Self-insuring Employers' Guaranty Fund.
  (A) The administrator of workers' compensation shall require every self-insuring employer, including any self-insuring employer that is indemnified by a captive insurance company granted...
• Section 4123.352 - Self-insuring Employers Evaluation Board.
  (A) There is hereby created the self-insuring employers evaluation board consisting of three members. The member of the industrial commission representing the public shall...
• Section 4123.353 - Public Employer Granted Self-insuring Employer Status.
  (A) A public employer, except for a board of county commissioners described in division (G) of section 4123.01 of the Revised Code, a board...
• Section 4123.36 - Covering Default When Account Uncollectible.
  Whenever an employer fails to pay a premium due and the administrator of workers' compensation determines the employer's account to be uncollectible, the administrator...
• Section 4123.37 - Failure To Pay Premiums By Amenable Employer.
  In this section "amenable employer" has the same meaning as "employer" as defined in division (I) of section 4123.32 of the Revised Code. If...
• Section 4123.38 - Contributions To Public Insurance Fund.
  Every employer mentioned in division (B)(1) of section 4123.01 of the Revised Code, except for boards of county hospital trustees that are self-insurers under...
• Section 4123.39 - Contributions By State And Subdivisions.
  The administrator of workers' compensation shall determine the amount of money to be contributed under section 4123.38 of the Revised Code by the state...
• Section 4123.391 - Remedies For Learn To Earn Participants.
  (A) For purposes of this section, "learn to earn program" has the same meaning as in section 4141.293 of the Revised Code. (B) Solely...
• Section 4123.40 - Estimating State's Contribution.
  On or before the first day of July of every year, the administrator of workers' compensation shall estimate the gross payroll of all state...
• Section 4123.401 - Estimated Number Of State Employees.
  On or before the first day of November preceding each biennium, the officer or employee of each state department, division, subdivision, bureau, commission, or...
• Section 4123.402 - Department Of Administrative Services - Powers And Duties.
  The department of administrative services shall act as employer for workers' compensation claims arising under this chapter and Chapters 4121., 4127., and 4131. of...
• Section 4123.41 - Annual Payments By County, Taxing District And Institution To Public Insurance Fund.
  (A) (1) For policy years that begin prior to January 1, 2016, by the first day of January of each year, the bureau of...
• Section 4123.411 - Levying Assessments For Disabled Workers' Relief Fund.
  (A) For all injuries and disabilities occurring before January 1, 1987, the administrator of workers' compensation, for the purpose of carrying out sections 4123.412...
• Section 4123.412 - Disabled Workers' Relief Fund.
  For the relief of persons who are permanently and totally disabled as the result of injury or disease sustained in the course of their...
• Section 4123.413 - Eligibility For Participation In Fund.
  To be eligible to participate in said fund, a participant must be permanently and totally disabled and be receiving workers' compensation payments, the total...
• Section 4123.414 - Receiving Payments From Fund.
  Each person determined eligible, pursuant to section 4123.413 of the Revised Code, to participate in the disabled workers' relief fund is entitled to receive...
• Section 4123.415 - Payments Made To Show Source Of Funds.
  Payments to a participant may be made from the disabled workers' relief fund by separate check or may be made from said fund and...
• Section 4123.416 - List Of Names And Addresses Of Person Receiving Compensation.
  The administrator of workers' compensation shall promptly require of each employer who has elected to pay compensation direct under the provisions of section 4123.35...
• Section 4123.417 - Investigation And Determination Of Right Of Persons To Participate In Disabled Workers' Relief Fund.
  In the investigation and determination of the right of persons to participate in the disabled workers' relief fund, the administrator of workers' compensation shall...
• Section 4123.418 - Bureau Employees.
  The administrator of workers' compensation shall employ employees as is necessary to the discharge of the administrator's duties and responsibilities hereunder. The salaries and...
• Section 4123.419 - Establishing Assessment Rate.
  The assessment rate established pursuant to section 4123.411 of the Revised Code, subject to the limits set forth in that section, shall be adequate...
• Section 4123.42 - Custodian Of State Insurance Fund.
  The treasurer of state shall be custodian of the state insurance fund, the occupational disease fund, and the safety and hygiene fund. The treasurer...
• Section 4123.43 - Deposit Of Funds Not Required For Immediate Use.
  The treasurer of state may deposit any portion of the state insurance fund not needed for immediate use in the same manner as and...
• Section 4123.44 - Investment Of Surplus Or Reserve Of State Insurance Fund.
  The members of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors, the administrator of workers' compensation, and the bureau of workers' compensation chief investment...
• Section 4123.441 - Chief Investment Adviser For Bureau - Duties.
  (A) The administrator of workers' compensation, with the advice and consent of the bureau of workers' compensation board of directors shall employ a person...
• Section 4123.442 - Development Of Investment Policy - Duties Of Committee.
  When developing the investment policy for the investment of the assets of the funds specified in this chapter and Chapters 4121., 4127., and 4131....
• Section 4123.443 - Rental Payments For Leased Buildings.
  Rental payments by the bureau of workers' compensation or the industrial commission to or for the benefit of the state insurance fund for each...
• Section 4123.444 - Duties Of Administrator Regarding Investment Manager Contracts.
  (A) As used in this section and section 4123.445 of the Revised Code: (1) "Bureau of workers' compensation funds" means any fund specified in...
• Section 4123.445 - Contract With Investment Manager Convicted Of Financial Crime Prohibited.
  (A) The administrator of workers' compensation shall not enter into a contract with an investment manager for the investment of assets of the bureau...
• Section 4123.446 - Report Regarding Minority And Women's Business Enterprises.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Minority business enterprise" has the meaning defined in section 122.71 of the Revised Code. (2) "Women's business...
• Section 4123.45 - Printing Or Lithographing Of Bonds - Denomination - Compliance By Taxing Authorities.
  All bonds of any taxing district of this state purchased by the administrator of workers' compensation shall be printed or lithographed upon paper of...
• Section 4123.452 - No Compensation For Injury Sustained In Ridesharing Arrangement.
  As used in this section, "ridesharing arrangement" means the transportation of persons in a motor vehicle where such transportation is incidental to another purpose...
• Section 4123.46 - Payments From State Insurance Fund.
  (A) (1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, the bureau of workers' compensation shall disburse the state insurance fund to employees...
• Section 4123.47 - Actuarial Analysis Of Fund; Audits Of Effectiveness Of Administration - Retention Of Actuary.
  (A) The administrator of workers' compensation shall have an actuarial analysis of the state insurance fund and all other funds specified in this chapter...
• Section 4123.48 - Individual Accounts To Be Kept By Bureau - Default In Payment.
  The bureau of workers' compensation shall keep, for the state and each county, taxing district, district activity, and institution, an individual account showing the...
• Section 4123.49 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 12-01-1992
• Section 4123.50 - Failure To Comply With Law.
  (A) Each member of a firm, and the president, secretary, general manager, or managing agent of each private corporation, including any public service corporation...
• Section 4123.51 - Place For Filing Claims Or Appeals - Required Statement.
  The administrator of workers' compensation shall by published notices and other appropriate means endeavor to cause claims to be filed in the service office...
• Section 4123.511 - Notice Of Receipt Of Claim.
  (A) Within seven days after receipt of any claim under this chapter, the bureau of workers' compensation shall notify the claimant and the employer...
• Section 4123.512 - Appeal To Court.
  (A) The claimant or the employer may appeal an order of the industrial commission made under division (E) of section 4123.511 of the Revised...
• Section 4123.513 To 4123.516 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-20-1993
• Section 4123.517, 4123.518 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-29-1993
• Section 4123.519 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 4123.512.
  Effective Date: 10-20-1993
• Section 4123.52 - Continuing Jurisdiction Of Commission.
  (A) The jurisdiction of the industrial commission and the authority of the administrator of workers' compensation over each case is continuing, and the commission...
• Section 4123.521 - Appeal For Purpose Of Delay Or Other Vexatious Reason And Without Reasonable Ground.
  In the case of an appeal by the employer to the industrial commission or to a court of common pleas, if upon deciding such...
• Section 4123.522 - Right To Receive Written Notice Of Action.
  The employee, employer, and their respective representatives are entitled to written notice of any hearing, determination, order, award, or decision under this chapter and...
• Section 4123.53 - Medical Examinations - Vocational Evaluation Or Questionnaire.
  (A) The administrator of workers' compensation or the industrial commission may require any employee claiming the right to receive compensation to submit to a...
• Section 4123.54 - Compensation In Case Of Injury Or Death - Agreement If Work Performed In Another State.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (I) and (K) of this section, every employee, who is injured or who contracts an occupational disease,...
• Section 4123.541 - Reduction Of Benefits In Proportion To Benefits Received Under Other Act Or Program.
  In the event that any person who is entitled to receive benefits for total disability, loss of member, or death through the application of...
• Section 4123.542 - Successful Claimant Not To File Duplicative Claim.
  An employee or the dependents of an employee who receive a decision on the merits of a claim for compensation or benefits under this...
• Section 4123.55 - No Compensation For First Week After Injury.
  No compensation shall be allowed for the first week after an injury is received or occupational disease contracted and no compensation shall be allowed...
• Section 4123.56 - Compensation In Case Of Temporary Disability.
  (A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, in the case of temporary disability, an employee shall receive sixty-six and two-thirds per...
• Section 4123.57 - Partial Disability Compensation.
  Partial disability compensation shall be paid as follows. Except as provided in this section, not earlier than twenty-six weeks after the date of termination...
• Section 4123.571 - Prior Claims.
  In connection with the procedural and remedial rights of employees, all claims which have accrued prior to the effective date of this act, whether...
• Section 4123.58 - Compensation For Permanent Total Disability.
  (A) In cases of permanent total disability, the employee shall receive an award to continue until the employee's death in the amount of sixty-six...
• Section 4123.59 - Benefits In Case Of Death - Dependency.
  In case an injury to or an occupational disease contracted by an employee causes the employee's death, benefits shall be in the amount and...
• Section 4123.591 - Providing List Of Person Recieving Spousal Death Benefit To Tax Commissioner.
  The administrator of workers' compensation may furnish quarterly, to the tax commissioner, in a format approved by the tax commissioner, a list containing the...
• Section 4123.60 - Persons Eligible For Death Benefits - Limitations.
  Benefits in case of death shall be paid to such one or more of the dependents of the decedent, for the benefit of all...
• Section 4123.61 - Basis For Computation Of Benefits.
  The average weekly wage of an injured employee at the time of the injury or at the time disability due to the occupational disease...
• Section 4123.62 - Consideration Of Expected Wage Increases.
  (A) If it is established that an injured or disabled employee was of such age and experience when injured or disabled as that under...
• Section 4123.63 - Service-connected Injury.
  If a person in active service in the armed forces of the United States at any time during a period of war as defined...
• Section 4123.64 - Commutation To Lump Sum.
  (A) The administrator of workers' compensation, under special circumstances, and when the same is deemed advisable for the purpose of rendering the injured or...
• Section 4123.65 - Application For Approval Of Final Settlement.
  (A) A state fund employer or the employee of such an employer may file an application with the administrator of workers' compensation for approval...
• Section 4123.651 - Employer Initiating Medical Examinations.
  (A) The employer of a claimant who is injured or disabled in the course of his employment may require, without the approval of the...
• Section 4123.66 - Making Additional Payments For Medical Or Funeral Expenses.
  (A) In addition to the compensation provided for in this chapter, the administrator of workers' compensation shall disburse and pay from the state insurance...
• Section 4123.67 - Compensation Exempt From Attachment Or Execution.
  Except as otherwise provided in sections 3119.80, 3119.81, 3121.02, 3121.03, and 3123.06 of the Revised Code, compensation before payment shall be exempt from all...
• Section 4123.68 - Schedule Of Compensable Occupational Diseases.
  Every employee who is disabled because of the contraction of an occupational disease or the dependent of an employee whose death is caused by...
• Section 4123.69 - Persons Entitled To Benefits.
  Every employee mentioned in section 4123.68 of the Revised Code and the dependents and the employer or employers of such employee shall be entitled...
• Section 4123.70 - Preexisitng Disease.
  No compensation shall be awarded on account of disability or death from disease suffered by an employee who, at the time of entering into...
• Section 4123.71 - Time For Report Of Physician.
  Every physician in this state attending on or called in to visit a patient whom he believes to be suffering from an occupational disease...
• Section 4123.72 - Failure To Make Report.
  No physician practicing in this state shall neglect or refuse to make and transmit to the bureau of workers' compensation the report provided for...
• Section 4123.73 - Participation By Employers Of Less Than Three Persons.
  Any employer who employs less than three employees regularly in the same business, or in or about the same establishment, who pays into the...
• Section 4123.74 - Immunity Of Employer.
  Employers who comply with section 4123.35 of the Revised Code shall not be liable to respond in damages at common law or by statute...
• Section 4123.741 - Immunity Of Fellow Employees.
  No employee of any employer, as defined in division (B) of section 4123.01 of the Revised Code, shall be liable to respond in damages...
• Section 4123.75 - Remedy Of Employee Against Noncomplying Employer.
  Any employee whose employer has failed to comply with section 4123.35 of the Revised Code, who has been injured or has suffered an occupational...
• Section 4123.751 - Service On Nonresident Employer.
  Any nonresident person, firm, or corporation of this state who engages in any activity or maintains any establishment in this state so as to...
• Section 4123.752 - Manner Of Service.
  Service of process under section 4123.751 of the Revised Code shall be served by the officer to whom the same shall be directed or...
• Section 4123.753 - Service Fee.
  An officer serving the process under sections 4123.751 and 4123.752 of the Revised Code upon the secretary of state shall pay to such secretary...
• Section 4123.754 - Continuance.
  A court in which an action is pending pursuant to service of process under sections 4123.751 and 4123.752 of the Revised Code may order...
• Section 4123.755 - Applicability To Residents Who Become Nonresidents.
  Sections 4123.751 to 4123.754, inclusive, of the Revised Code shall be construed to extend the right of service of process upon nonresidents and upon...
• Section 4123.756 - Death Of Employer Prior To Commencement Of Civil Action.
  In the event an employer, under the purview of sections 4123.751 to 4123.755 of the Revised Code, has died prior to the commencement of...
• Section 4123.76 - Claim Against Noncomplying Employer A Lien.
  When an application for compensation or benefits or an application for further compensation or benefits is filed with the industrial commission or the bureau...
• Section 4123.77 - Common Law Defenses Denied To Noncomplying Employers.
  Employers mentioned in division (B)(2) of section 4123.01 of the Revised Code, who fail to comply with section 4123.35 of the Revised Code are...
• Section 4123.78 - Recording Of Certificate Of Noncompliance.
  If any employer fails to comply with section 4123.35 of the Revised Code in accordance with the rules of the administrator of workers' compensation,...
• Section 4123.79 - Party May Enjoin Operation Of Noncomplying Employer - Construction Contractor Or Subcontractor.
  (A) Any interested party may enjoin the further operation of an employer subject to this chapter who has failed to pay the employer's premium...
• Section 4123.80 - Agreement To Waive Rights Void - Exceptions.
  No agreement by an employee to waive an employee's rights to compensation under this chapter is valid, except that: (A) An employee who is...
• Section 4123.81 - Prohibition Against Deduction For Premium.
  No employer shall deduct any portion of the premium paid by such employer into the state insurance fund from the wages or salary of...
• Section 4123.82 - Contracts Indemnifying Or Insuring Employer Void.
  (A) All contracts and agreements are void which undertake to indemnify or insure an employer against loss or liability for the payment of compensation...
• Section 4123.83 - Posting Of Notice By Employer.
  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...
• Section 4123.84 - Claims For Injury Or Death Barred After Two Years - Exceptions.
  (A) In all cases of injury or death, claims for compensation or benefits for the specific part or parts of the body injured shall...
• Section 4123.85 - Claims For Compensation Or Benefits In Cases Of Occupational Diseases.
  In all cases of occupational disease, or death resulting from occupational disease, claims for compensation or benefits are forever barred unless, within two years...
• Section 4123.86, 4123.87 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-1974
• Section 4123.88 - False Representation Or Solicitation Of Authority.
  (A) No person shall orally or in writing, directly or indirectly, or through any agent or other person fraudulently hold the person's self out...
• Section 4123.89 - Minor Is Sui Juris - Additional Award For Violation.
  For the purpose of this chapter, a minor is sui juris, and no other person shall have any cause of action or right to...
• Section 4123.90 - Discrimination Against Alien Dependents Unlawful.
  The bureau of workers' compensation, industrial commission, or any other body constituted by the statutes of this state, or any court of this state,...
• Section 4123.91 - Information From Consular Officials.
  When the dependents of killed employees reside in a foreign country, the consul general, consul, vice-consul, or consular agent, accredited by the county wherein...
• Section 4123.92 - Attorney General, Prosecuting Attorney - Prosecution And Defense Of Actions.
  Upon the request of the industrial commission or the administrator of workers' compensation, the attorney general, or under the attorney general's direction the prosecuting...
• Section 4123.93 - Subrogation Definitions.
  As used in sections 4123.93 and 4123.931 of the Revised Code: (A) "Claimant" means a person who is eligible to receive compensation, medical benefits,...
• Section 4123.931 - Statutory Subrogee Subrogated To Rights Of Claimant Against Third Party.
  (A) The payment of compensation or benefits pursuant to this chapter or Chapter 4121., 4127., or 4131., of the Revised Code creates a right...
• Section 4123.94 - Preference Of Judgments.
  All judgments obtained in any action prosecuted by the administrator of workers' compensation or by the state under the authority of this chapter shall...
• Section 4123.95 - Liberal Construction Of Chapter.
  Sections 4123.01 to 4123.94, inclusive, of the Revised Code shall be liberally construed in favor of employees and the dependents of deceased employees. Effective...
• Section 4123.96 - Solicitation Of Claims Prohibited.
  No person who solicits claims or who causes claims to be solicited shall be allowed to practice, or represent parties, before the industrial commission...
• Section 4123.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates section 4123.27 or 4123.28 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (B) Whoever violates section...

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