State ex rel. Bryant v. Pinkerton's, Inc.

The crux of this appeal concerns the authority of the Industrial Commission to reclassify an injury from temporary to permanent. Appellant would have this court interpret R.C. 4123.56 as requiring a minimum of two hundred weeks’ payment of temporary total disability benefits before a temporary disability may be considered to have become a permanent condition.

This proposition is premised upon the following portion of R.C. 4123.56:

“After two hundred weeks of temporary total disability benefits, the claimant shall be scheduled for an examination by the industrial commission medical department…