State ex rel. King v. Industrial Commission

Cook; J.

{¶ 1} Decedent, David King, was industrially injured in 1974 and his average weekly wage (“AWW”) was set at $434.92. A declaration of permanent total disability (“PTD”) followed. Thereafter he received PTD benefits until his injury eventually caused his death in 2000, some 22 years later. The Bureau of Workers’ Compensation allowed a death claim by the claimant, decedent’s widow, and weekly payments of $289.95 (66 2/3 percent of claimant’s AWW), which the Industrial Commission, appellee and cross-appellant, corrected on appeal to $294.50 per week to conform to the minimum statutory…