Ohio public employers applauded an average 9.1 percent reduction in workers’ compensation rates for local governments that was approved by the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Board of Directors. The new rates covering 3,800 cities, counties, townships, villages, schools …
An Ohio man was ordered to pay more than $31,000 in restitution to the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC). Shannon Watson was sentenced Sept. 19 in Franklin County Court of Common Pleas on one count of workers’ compensation fraud, …
A Nelsonville (Athens County) chiropractor has been ordered to pay more than $300,000 in restitution to the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation. Michael L. Brown pleaded guilty Aug. 22 in Franklin County Court of Common Pleas to one count of …
Governor John R. Kasich and Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Administrator/CEO Steve Buehrer announced a $1 billion rebate to Ohio’s private and public sector workers’ compensation customers, as well as a major new investment in worker safety research and …
A Ohio man was ordered to pay more than $19,000 in workers’ compensation restitution in connection with working while receiving workplace injury benefits. Patrick Woods, formerly of Chillicothe (Ross County), pleaded guilty June 5 in Ross County Court of Common …
A former Ohio man was ordered to pay more than $26,000 in workers’ compensation restitution. David Delvecchio pleaded guilty April 29 in Franklin County Common Pleas Court to one count of workers’ compensation fraud, a fifth-degree felony, after the Ohio …
The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation has reached an agreement in principle to settle the San Allen case, a class action lawsuit filed in 2007 against the BWC over the pricing of workers’ comp policies that were in place between …
Brooklynn Mieczkowski was ordered to pay more than $10,000 after investigators with the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) recorded surveillance video that proved the culinary student was improperly collecting workplace injury benefits. Mieczkowski pleaded guilty June 24 in Franklin …
A Ohio man was ordered to pay more than $2,000 in connection with working while receiving workplace injury benefits. Shannon Rager pleaded guilty June 26 in Franklin County Court of Common Pleas to one count of workers’ compensation fraud, a …
The state is appealing a court ruling that says Ohio’s state insurance fund for injured workers set up an illegal rating system that resulted in employers being overcharged nearly $860 million over several years. The unanimous decision by the 8th …