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Many people count on the income from their jobs to support themselves and their families. An accident in the workplace can cause serious injuries that prevent workers from earning the income they need to survive. Fortunately, many workers who are injured at work are...
Wherever you are injured, it is a bad day. However, if you were injured on the job, you may be eligible for Ohio workers’ compensation benefits. But, not every injury that occurs during work hours is covered by these benefits, including the coming and going rule. What...
It can be difficult to fathom the possibility that an employer willfully tried to injure an employee. This goes beyond pure negligence and seeps into willful intent. It is important to know that this does happen and state law has a specific statute on the books to...
Can you choose your own doctor in an Ohio workers' compensation case? The answer to this question is somewhat complex, and somewhat controversial. Emergency situations and continuing treatment First and most importantly, if you have just been injured and need...
Today, the work environment can look drastically different depending on a person’s job, employer and industry. Whether an Ohio employee works in an office, from home, a factory, construction site, lab or any other work environment, accidents and injuries are possible...
In so many posts, we talk about the quick examples. In this post, we use an example to frame how the Ohio workers’ compensation system works. For example, a nurse in Cleveland, Ohio, injured their back while lifting a patient. They are now worried about how they can...
Like many people, you probably associate workplace injuries in Ohio with jobs involving manual or physical labor. You might think you cannot sustain a serious injury at your office job when most of your tasks involve sitting at a desk and working on a computer....
Accidents happen at work, especially in physically demanding jobs like construction, nursing and manufacturing. But it does not take a dramatic or violent workplace incident to get hurt on the job. You can avoid accidents at work and still end up with a serious and...
When most people think of a workplace injury, they imagine an injury occurring in a physically demanding job, such as a construction or manual labor job. However, a workplace injury can happen to any Ohio worker in any type of job. Workplace injuries happen in all...
For many workers in Ohio, traveling to an office, worksite or another destination to perform some or all of their work is their norm in the new remote-work world. Whether it is in an office, warehouse, factory or jobsite, all employees are faced with some degree of...