Specht v. BP America, Inc.

A “residual” workers’ compensation claim occurs when a claimant’s work-induced injury generates a medical condition in a body part other than the claimant originally specified. Dent v. AT&T Technologies, Inc. (1988), 38 Ohio St.3d 187, 189, 527 N.E.2d 821, 824. Formerly, the commission determined a residual-condition claimant’s right to participate pursuant to the commission’s continuing jurisdiction under R.C. 4123.52 and without regard to the two-year notice requirement in R.C. 4123.84 for initiating claims generally. Kittle v. Keller (1967), 9 Ohio St.2d 177, 38 O.O.2d 414, 224 N.E.2d 751,…