State ex rel. Ramirez v. Industrial Commission

This case raises the following question. Is temporary total disability as used in R. C. 4123.56 a disability which prevents a worker from returning to his former position of employment? The answer is affirmative, for the following reasons.

The pertinent portions of R. C. 4123.56, temporary disability compensation, provide as follows:

“In the case of temporary disability, an employee shall receive sixty-six and two-thirds per cent of his average weekly wage so long as such disability is total, * * * .

*632“Payments shall continue pending the determination of the matter, however payment shall not be…