Supreme Court Says BWC Wrongly Reclassified Employees of 'Public Body'

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that the Bureau of Workers' Compensation erred in assigning employees of the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments two classifications for public-employer taxing districts, resulting in a much higher premium for the self-described “public body.” Case: State ex rel. Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments v. BWC, No. 2021-0889, 09/06/2022, published. Facts: The Ohio Constitution empowers the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation to "classify all occupations, according to their degree of hazard" and to "f...