State Ex Rel. Jacobs v. Industrial Commission

{¶ 21} I question the application of the judicially created theory of voluntary abandonment of employment in any workers’ compensation case, but it is particularly troubling in cases where the Industrial Commission has not even considered all the medical evidence presented by the claimant. In this case, *90there is unequivocal medical evidence that this employee was injured on the job. And the Industrial Commission has yet to address the merits of Wanda Jacobs’s request for compensation based on the report from Dr. Rafik Massoun. I believe that any discussion of voluntary abandonment of…