SPECHT v. BP AM., INC.

No. 98-1.

86 Ohio St.3d 29 (1999)

SPECHT, APPELLANT, v. BP AMERICA, INC. ET AL., APPELLEES.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided June 30, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stewart R. Jaffy & Associates Co., L.P.A., Stewart R. Jaffy and Marc J. Jaffy; Shapiro, Kendis & Associates Co., L.P.A., and Alan J. Shapiro, for appellant.

Krugliak, Wilkins, Griffiths & Dougherty Co., L.P.A., Edward D. Murray, Michael A. Thompson and Susan Carson Rodgers, for appellee BP America, Inc.


PFEIFER, J.

A "residual" workers' compensation claim occurs when a claimant's work-induced injury generates a medical condition in a body part other than the claimant originally specified. Dent v. AT&T Technologies, Inc. (1988), 38 Ohio St.3d 187, 189, 527 N.E.2d 821, 824. Formerly, the commission determined a residual-condition claimant's right to participate...

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