DEAN v. CONRAD

No. C-980731.

134 Ohio App.3d 367 (1999)

DEAN, Appellee, v. CONRAD, Admr., et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Ohio, First District, Hamilton County.

Decided June 18, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O'Connor, Acciani & Levy, Carrie Budinger and Marissa L. Godby, for appellee.

Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, and Steven Fixler, Assistant Attorney General, for appellants, Administrator, Bureau of Workers' Compensation, and Industrial Commission of Ohio.

J.S. Brooking, for appellant, Cincinnati Drum Service, Inc.


PAINTER, Judge.

We find ourselves confronted with an odd issue of first impression in Ohio1— whether the language that the Workers' Compensation Act shall be "liberally construed" in favor of employees2 may be included in a jury instruction. We find no Ohio decisions directly on point, and no reported decisions at all. Like many issues that seem to be of first impression in the appellate courts, this...

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