State ex rel. Litten v. Industrial Commission

An award for permanent total disability in one claim does not bar permanent partial disability in another, so long as the injuries affect different areas of the body. State ex rel. Consolidation Coal Co. v. Indus. Comm. (1980), 62 Ohio St.2d 147, 149, 16 O.O.3d 166, 167, 404 N.E.2d 141, 143, quoting State ex rel. Gen. Motors Corp. v. Indus. Comm. (1975), 42 Ohio St.2d 278, 282, 71 O.O.2d 255, 257, 328 N.E.2d 387, 389. The present claimant has two workers’ compensation claims and argues that the one hundred percent allocation to a single claim represents a total attribution of permanent total…