Dean v. Conrad

Painter, Judge.

We find ourselves confronted with an odd issue of first impression in Ohio 1 — whether the language that the Workers’ Compensation Act shall be “liberally construed” in favor of employees 2 may be included in a jury instruction. We find no Ohio decisions directly on point, and no reported decisions at all. Like many issues that seem to be of first impression in the appellate courts, this one may be so because no one ever thought to raise it before. And properly so, because the language is a rule of statutory construction directed to' courts, not to juries.

Appellee, William…