STATE EX REL. HIATT v. INDUS. COMM.

No. 2002-1116.

99 Ohio St.3d 32 (2003)

2003-Ohio-2453

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

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided May 16, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stewart Jaffy & Associates Co., L.P.A., Stewart R. Jaffy, Marc J. Jaffy and Sue A. Fauber; Siebold & Hammelrath Co., L.P.A., and W. Smith Hammelrath, for appellant.

Jim Petro, Attorney General, and William J. McDonald, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee Industrial Commission of Ohio.

Dinsmore & Shohl, L.L.P., Gary E. Becker and Brian C. Thomas, for appellee Millenium Petrochemicals, Inc.


COOK, J.

{¶ 1} Decedent, James F.A. Knowles, applied for a normal service retirement from appellee Millenium Petrochemicals, Inc. in September 1985 at the age of 65. His retirement was to be effective three months later. Prior to this effective date, Knowles saw a physician complaining of "minimal respiratory difficulties." The physician diagnosed asbestosis and opined that Knowles was 25 percent impaired. His only instructions were for Knowles to...

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