State ex rel. Baker v. Industrial Commission

{¶ 1} Relators-appellants, Karen Baker and her counsel, Schiavoni, Schiavoni, Bush & Muldowney Co., L.P.A. (“the Schiavoni firm” or “the law firm”), appeal the judgment of the Tenth District Court of Appeals denying their request for a writ of mandamus to compel appellee the administrator of the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation to pay legal fees to the Schiavoni firm out of Baker’s permanent-partial-disability-compensation award.

{¶ 2} Because the Schiavoni firm has no clear legal right to have the bureau pay its fees out of the award and the bureau has no clear legal duty to pay the attorney…