EGAN v. NATIONAL DISTILLERS & CHEMICAL CORP.

No. 85-699.

25 Ohio St. 3d 176 (1986)

EGAN ET AL., APPELLEES, v. NATIONAL DISTILLERS & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, D.B.A. EMERY INDUSTRIES, APPELLANT.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided July 30, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steer, Strauss, White & Tobias and R. Guy Taft, for appellees.

Dinsmore & Shohl, Mark A. Vander Laan and Patrick D. Lane, for appellant.


CELEBREZZE, C.J.

The first proposition of law presented by appellant is that when an injured worker receives workers' compensation benefits from the employee's self-insured employer for an injury received at work, and thereafter is awarded intentional tort damages against his employer for the same injury, the amount of workers' compensation paid by the employer must be set off against the damage award.

We previously rejected such a contention in paragraph...

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