Gov. Asks BWC to Extend 2020 Dividend

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine requested that the board of directors for the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation expand a 2020 dividend to include about 3,000 employers that did not meet eligibility requirements last year. “The requested expansion would allow for approximately $30 million to go to the previously ineligible employers who, through no fault of their own, could not perform their 2019 ‘true-up’ in the time frame for the dividend return,” the BWC said in a statement. The true-up process requires employers to report actual payroll at the end of the policy year to e...