State ex rel. Tumbleson v. Eaton Corp.

At issue is the adequacy of claimant’s job search. Adequacy is assessed case-by-case, and involves many factors, the most common being number and character of job contacts. State ex rel. Vanover v. Emery Worldwide (1997), 80 Ohio St.3d 367, 686 N.E.2d 518. Both, to differing degrees, are raised here.

Numerically, claimant’s job contacts are voluminous, with hundreds of contacts listed. No one, moreover, has alleged that the contacts were fabricated. The commission, however, concluded that so many of these contacts were made in bad faith as to taint the entire search and compel its…