State ex rel. AutoZone Stores, Inc. v. Indus. Comm.

Citations

• 209 N.E.3d 933
• 2023 Ohio 633

Syllabus

Writ of mandamus filed by relator-employer seeking to compel respondent Industrial Commission (\commission\) to vacate its order granting the request for temporary total disability compensation filed by respondent-claimant is denied where claimant's approved surgery rendered him unable to work as the direct result of an impairment arising from a workplace injury under the plain language of newly enacted R.C. 4123.56(F). Relator-employer's objections focusing on claimant's termination prior to the surgery and relying on judicial decisions based on the voluntary abandonment doctrine, which were expressly superseded by R.C. 4123.56(F), lacked merit. Objections overruled and writ denied.