State ex rel. Burley v. Coil Packing, Inc.

This cause is but another example of the multitude of cases in which this court has been asked to evaluate the credibility of the evidence before the Industrial Commission in workers’ compensation claims involving two or more allowed conditions. All of these actions are the result of this court’s judgment in State, ex rel. Anderson, v. Indus. Comm. (1980), 62 Ohio St. 2d 166, 16 O.O. 3d 199, 404 N.E. 2d 153, wherein this court established the combined-effects evidentiary rule.

The impetus for this decision was a concern that in the disposition of multiple-injury claims, the commission would…