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SAN ALLEN, INC. v. BUEHRER

No. 99786.

2014-Ohio-2071

SAN ALLEN, INC., ET AL., PLAINTIFFS-APPELLEES/CROSS-APPELLANTS, v. STEPHEN BUEHRER, ADMINISTRATOR, OHIO BUREAU OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT/CROSS-APPELLEE.

Court of Appeals of Ohio, Eighth District, Cuyahoga County.

Released and Journalized: May 15, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael DeWine , Attorney General of Ohio, BY: Mark E. Mastrangelo , Jeffrey B. Duber , Assistant Attorneys General, 615 West Superior Ave., 11th Floor, Cleveland, Ohio 44113-1899; John N. Childs , Robert A. Hager , Adam D. Fuller , Brennan, Manna & Diamond, L.L.C., 75 E. Market St., Akron, Ohio 44308, Attorneys for Appellant.

James A. DeRoche , Stuart I. Garson , David L. Meyerson , David H. Krause , Seaman Garson, L.L.C., 1600 Rockefeller Building, 614 West Superior Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44113; Patrick J. Perotti , Jonathan T. Stender , Darrin R. Toney , Nicole T. Fiorelli , Dworken & Bernstein Co., L.P.A., 60 South Park Pl., Painesville, Ohio 44077, Attorneys for Appellees.

Marc J. Jaffy , Stewart R. Jaffy , Stewart Jaffy & Assoc. Co., L.P.A., 306 East Gay St., Columbus, Ohio 43215, Amici Curiae, Attorneys for Ohio Afl-Cio.

John W. Zeiger , Stuart G. Parsell , Zeiger, Tigges & Little L.L.P., 41 South High St., Suite 3500, Columbus, Ohio 43215, Attorneys for Ohio Chamber of Commerce and National Federation of Independent. Business/Ohio.

Susannah Muskovitz , Muskovitz & Lemmerbrock, L.L.C., 1621 Euclid Ave., Suite 1750, Cleveland, Ohio 44115, Attorney for Cleveland Teachers Union, AFT Local 279, AFL-CIO.

Susan L. Gragel , Goldstein Gragel, L.L.C., 1040 Leader Building, 526 Superior Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44114, Attorney for Teamsters Local Union No. 416.

James A. Marniella , Demer & Marniella, L.L.C., 2 Berea Commons, Suite 200, Berea, Ohio 44017, Attorney for International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and. Reinforcing Iron Workers Local No. 17.

Barbara A. Langhenry , Director of Law, City of Cleveland, By: Joseph F. Scott , Chief Assistant Director of Law, City of Cleveland — Law Department 601 Lakeside Ave., Room 106, Cleveland, Ohio 44114; Mitchell G. Blair , Maura L. Hughes , Calfee Halter & Griswold L.L.P., 1405 East 6th St., Cleveland, Ohio 44114, Attorneys for City of Cleveland.

Terence E. Copeland , The Council for Economic Opportunities in Greater Cleveland, 1228 Euclid Ave., Suite 700, Cleveland, Ohio 44115, Attorney for The Council for Economic Opportunities in Greater Cleveland.

Before: Rocco, P.J., E.A. Gallagher, J., and Kilbane, J.

JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION

KENNETH A. ROCCO, P.J.

{¶1} Reduced to its irreducible essence, this appeal is about a cabal of Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation ("BWC") bureaucrats and lobbyists for group sponsors who rigged workers' compensation insurance premium rates so that for employers who participated in the BWC's group rating plan ("group-rated employers"), it was "heads we win," and for employers who did not participate in the group...

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