NORTHWESTERN OHIO BLDG. & CONSTR. TRADES COUNCIL v. CONRAD

No. 00-216.

92 Ohio St.3d 282 (2001)

NORTHWESTERN OHIO BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL ET AL., APPELLEES, v. CONRAD, ADMR., BUREAU OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION ET AL., APPELLANTS.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided July 18, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gallon & Takacs Co., L.P.A., Theodore A. Bowman, Jack Gallon and John M. Roca, for appellees.

Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General; Schottenstein, Zox & Dunn, L.P.A., Kris M. Dawley and Russell J. Kutell, for appellants James Conrad and the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation.

Zeiger & Carpenter, John W. Zeiger, Marion H. Little, Jr., and Ronald E. Laymon, urging reversal for amicus curiae MCO League of Ohio.

Stewart Jaffy & Assoc. Co., L.P.A., Stewart R. Jaffy and Marc J. Jaffy, urging affirmance for amicus curiae Ohio AFL-CIO.


COOK, J.

In 1993, the General Assembly amended Ohio's workers' compensation scheme to create the Health Partnership Program ("HPP"), a comprehensive managed care program administered by appellant, the Bureau of Workers' Compensation ("BWC"), to provide medical services to employees for their compensable injuries or occupational diseases. See 145 Ohio Laws, Part II, 2990, 3088-3093; R.C. 4121.44 and 4121.441. We have already determined that the managed...

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