STATE EX REL. OOTEN v. SIEGEL INTERIOR

No. 96-1421.

84 Ohio St.3d 255 (1998)

THE STATE EX REL. OOTEN, APPELLANT, v. SIEGEL INTERIOR SPECIALISTS COMPANY; INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF OHIO, APPELLEE.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided December 30, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Butkovich, Schimpf, Schimpf & Ginocchio Co., L.P.A., James A. Whittaker and Stephen P. Gast, for appellant.

Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, and C. Bradley Howenstein, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.


Per Curiam.

Wage-loss compensation was denied to claimant because the commission found insufficient evidence of actual wage loss and, alternatively, no causal relationship between the asserted loss and industrial injury. The latter, particularly, presents a novel question of whether the commission abused its discretion in denying wage-loss compensation for lack of a job search to a self-employed claimant. Because we answer this question in the...

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