State ex rel. LTV Steel Co. v. Industrial Commission

To receive permanent total disability compensation, a claimant must: (1) demonstrate an inability to perform sustained remunerative employment, and (2) causally relate that inability to the claimant’s allowed conditions. State ex rel. Jennings v. Indus. Comm. (1982), 1 Ohio St.3d 101, 1 OBR 135, 438 N.E.2d 420; Fox v. Indus. Comm. (1955), 162 Ohio St. 569, 55 O.O. 472, 125 N.E.2d 1. The present claimant undisputably cannot work. The medical reports on which the commission relied, however, discussed nonallowed conditions, and have raised a causal-relationship question. We must *24determine…