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Ohio Court Says Healthcare Benefits and Pension Contributions Not to be Used in Computing AWW

The Workcomp Writer

Quoting Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law , an Ohio appellate court affirmed a decision by the state’s Industrial Commission that had refused to consider various fringe benefits in the form of health and welfare benefits, as well as the employer’s contribution to several pension funds as “wages” or “earnings” under Ohio Rev.

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Are Workers’ Compensation benefits protected against the rising cost of living?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Workers with permanent disabilities often don’t have those options. The monthly workers’ compensation amount they receive may have sustained them initially but unless it is adjusted for the cost of living, permanently disabled workers will see the buying power of their workers’ compensation income decline with each passing year.