Industrial Commission v. Warnke

The question presented for our determination is whether it is competent for a widow, claiming the benefit extended to her by the Workmen’s Compensation Act of Ohio, to waive the protection of the privileged communications statute (Section 11494, General Code), and to permit her husband’s attending physician to testify concerning the former’s physical condition at different times during’ the course of treatment.

Section 1465-91, General Code, provides that no compensation shall be paid a claimant on account of an occupational disease unless a medical advisor appointed by the Industrial…