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Quick Guide to Ohio Workers’ Compensation 

Workers’ Compensation Insurance ion Ohio

According to Ohio workers’ compensation laws, an employer with one or more employees must carry workers’ compensation insurance.  Ohio has specific laws that address the entirety of the workers’ compensation process, and if you believe you have been denied your rights to workers’ compensation payments, you should contact an attorney immediately.  

Ohio Workers’ Compensation Laws

All Ohio workers’ compensation laws can be found under the Ohio Revised Code or the Administrative Code.  These laws address specific procedures an employer with workers’ compensation insurance in Ohio must take after an injury has occurred, types of fraud, procedures for payment, and more.  

Workers’ Compensation Fraud

Although numerous citizens attempt to receive benefits from workers’ compensation insurance in Ohio through fraud, they may face severe penalties if they are caught.  According to Ohio workers’ compensation laws under 2913.48 of Ohio code, no person can attempt or know another person is committed the following types of fraud: 

1. Receiving benefits they are not entitled to in any way

2. Present a cause using misleading statements 

3. “Alter, falsify, destroy, conceal, or remove any record or document that is necessary to fully establish the validity of an claim file with, or necessary to establish the nature and validity of all goods and services for which reimbursement or payment was received…”

4. Enter into an agreement to conspire against the bureau of self-insuring employer

5. Make a false statement concerning “manual codes, classification of employees, payroll, paid compensation, or number of personnel, when that nature is necessary to determine the actually workers’ compensation premium.  

6. Alter or forge a certificate 

Obtaining Workers’ Compensation 

In Ohio, workers’ compensation laws state that an injured party must report the injury to the employer immediately.  The employer will then send the employee to a doctor under their workers’ compensation insurance in Ohio and have the doctor determine the extent of injury and how long the recovery will take.  

Ohio workers’ compensation laws state that person can receive compensation for medical expenses, rehabilitation services, a reduction in wages, and for a permanent injury that has limited their amount of work in the future.  The workers’ compensation insurance in Ohio is in place to keep the employer protected from a lawsuit if the employee decides to take the compensation.  

Lump Sums and Attorneys FeeAccording to Ohio workers’ compensation laws under section 3121.03.111, an administrator of self-insuring employer may “deduct from the lump sum payment the amount of the attorney’s fee and necessary expense and pay that amount directly to and solely in the name of the attorney within fourteen days after the fee agreement…” 

Additionally, accord to part (d) of section 3121.03.111, if the award from the workers’ compensation insurance in Ohio is one hundred fifty dollars or less after the attorneys fee are deducted, they may not have to provide the payment.  

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