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Ohio Supreme Court Sides With Workers’ Comp Fraud

July 25, 2016

Via: Workforce
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Ohio has a specific statute that protects injured workers from retaliation after filing a workers’ compensation claim. O.R.C. 4123.90 states:

No employer shall discharge, demote, reassign, or take any punitive action against any employee because the employee filed a claim or instituted, pursued or testified in any proceedings under the workers’ compensation act for an injury or occupational disease which occurred in the course of and arising out of his employment with that employer.

It would seem that for this statute to protect an employee, the employee’s alleged injury must be an actual workplace injury.

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