State ex rel. Stevens v. Industrial Commission

{¶ 1} Appellant and cross-appellee, Sophia Stevens, slipped and fell while working as a nursing assistant in 1979. Thirty years later, in 2009, she filed a *314motion for permanent-total-disability compensation. Appellee and cross-appellant, Industrial Commission, through a staff hearing officer, initially granted her request. The full commission subsequently reconsidered the staff hearing officer’s order and denied Stevens’s request for benefits.

{¶ 2} Stevens filed a complaint for a writ of mandamus in the Tenth District Court of Appeals, alleging that the commission abused its discretion when…