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Finding that there was sufficient evidence to support a decision by the Ohio Industrial Commission that an injured worker had, without advising the Commission or the employer, knowingly engaged in sustained remunerative employment in the form of exchanging horse-training and grooming services for housing and feeding charges at the stable that sheltered the worker’s horses, the Supreme Court of Ohio affirmed a decision terminating the worker’s PTD benefits. The Supreme Court disagreed, however, with the Commission’s choice of the disqualifying date and remanded the case for further determinations.
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See State ex rel. Seibert v. Richard Cyr, 2019-Ohio-3341, 2019 Ohio LEXIS 1734 (Aug. 22, 2019)
See generally Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, § 39.03.
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