STATE EX REL. COLLIVER v. INDUS. COMM.

No. 95-1792.

84 Ohio St.3d 476 (1999)

THE STATE EX REL. COLLIVER, APPELLANT, v. INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF OHIO ET AL., APPELLEES.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided February 17, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Casper & Casper, Arthur B. Casper and Margaret H. McCollum, for appellant.

Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, and Cheryl J. Nester, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee Industrial Commission of Ohio.

Dunlevey, Mahan & Furry, Gary W. Auman, William H. Barney III, William P. Allen and D. Patrick Kasson, for appellee Armco Steel Company, L.P.

Stewart Jaffy & Associates Co., L.P.A., Stewart R. Jaffy and Marc J. Jaffy, urging reversal for amicus curiae, Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers.

Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease, Robert A. Minor and Robin R. Obetz, urging affirmance for amici curiae, Ohio Manufacturers' Association and Ohio Self-Insurers' Association.


LUNDBERG STRATTON, J.

The issue before this court is whether the commission abused its discretion when it denied claimant's application for an additional award for a VSSR. For the following reasons, we determine that the commission did not abuse its discretion. We affirm the judgment of the court of appeals and deny the claimant's request for a writ of mandamus.

The commission has exclusive authority to "hear and determine whether or not an injury...

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