Afrates v. City of Lorain

The question we are asked to decide is whether the commission’s May 5, 1988 decision, finding that the city did not receive, as required by R.C. 4123.522, notice of the administrator’s April 1987 order, is appealable under the provisions of R.C. 4123.519. For the reasons that follow, we hold that the May 5, 1988 decision of the commission was not appealable pursuant to the terms of R.C. 4123.519 and, accordingly, reverse the judgment of the court of appeals.

In part, R.C. 4123.519 (now renumbered 4123.519[A]) provided:

“The claimant or the employer may appeal a decision of the industrial…