State ex rel. Lawrence v. American Lubricants Co.

Permanent total disability is the inability to engage in sustained remunerative employment. State, ex rel. Jennings, v. Indus. Comm. (1982), 1 Ohio St. 3d 101, 1 OBR 135, 438 N.E. 2d 420. In State, ex rel. Stephenson, v. Indus. Comm. (1987), 31 Ohio St. 3d 167, 31 OBR 369, 509 N.E. 2d 946, we stated that for purposes of permanent total disability determination, examining physicians should confine their opinions to the question of medical impairment, and that the commission, in addressing the more comprehensive issue of permanent total disability, should also consider the “* * * claimant’s…