State ex rel. Hutton v. Industrial Commission

At the outset, it should be noted that no claim is made by or on behalf of the Industrial Commission that it would have any authority to deduct, from the determination of relator’s percentage of permanent partial disability, the percentage determined in making an award to the same person in a separate claim which predated the injury in question. In any event, our decision in State, ex rel. Shewalter, v. Indus. Comm. (1969), 19 Ohio St. 2d 12, would appear to preclude such authority, in the absence of a specific finding that a portion of a workman’s present disability is unrelated to the claim…