State ex rel. Koonce v. Industrial Commission

State ex rel. Gay v. Mihm (1994), 68 Ohio St.3d 315, 626 N.E.2d 666, stands for the proposition that courts will no longer be precluded from ordering permanent total disability compensation where a claimant clearly deserves such an award. In his dissent herein, Justice Wright attacks the holding in Gay and excoriates the majority in Gay for our search for “justice.” Perhaps we are also old-fashioned in believing that at least one of the roles of courts is to be fair and to seek “justice,” even in the face of continued vitriolic attempts to discredit our efforts in achieving those goals. In…