Pfeifer: Permanent Total Disability Benefits

In 1983, Robert Boyd, who is now in his early 90s, retired from the Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. Twenty-two years later, in 2005, he filed a claim for workers’ compensation benefits for asbestosis in both lungs. The claim was allowed and he began collecting benefits. But the story didn’t end there. In 2013, Robert applied for permanent total disability benefits. Permanent total disability is defined in Ohio law as the “inability to perform sustained remunerative employment due to the allowed conditions” in a workers’ compensation claim. Wh...