Ohio Code 4123.69 – Persons entitled to benefits
Every employee mentioned in section 4123.68 of the Revised Code and the dependents and the employer or employers of such employee shall be entitled to all the rights, benefits, and immunities and shall be subject to all the liabilities, penalties, and regulations provided for injured employees and their employers by this chapter.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 4123.69
- employee: includes the following persons when responding to an inherently dangerous situation that calls for an immediate response on the part of the person, regardless of whether the person is within the limits of the jurisdiction of the person's regular employment or voluntary service when responding, on the condition that the person responds to the situation as the person otherwise would if the person were on duty in the person's jurisdiction:
(i) Off-duty peace officers. See Ohio Code 4123.01
- Employer: means :
(a) The state, including state hospitals, each county, municipal corporation, township, school district, and hospital owned by a political subdivision or subdivisions other than the state;
(b) Every person, firm, professional employer organization, alternate employer organization, and private corporation, including any public service corporation, that (i) has in service one or more employees or shared employees regularly in the same business or in or about the same establishment under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written, or (ii) is bound by any such contract of hire or by any other written contract, to pay into the insurance fund the premiums provided by this chapter. See Ohio Code 4123.01
- Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
- Occupational disease: means a disease contracted in the course of employment, which by its causes and the characteristics of its manifestation or the condition of the employment results in a hazard which distinguishes the employment in character from employment generally, and the employment creates a risk of contracting the disease in greater degree and in a different manner from the public in general. See Ohio Code 4123.01
- state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
The administrator of workers’ compensation shall have all of the powers, authority, and duties with respect to the collection, administration, and disbursement of the state occupational disease fund as are provided for in this chapter, providing for the collection, administration, and disbursement of the state insurance fund for the compensation of injured employees.