TV Ads Target Kasich in Bid to Get BWC to Drop Its Appeal

The long-running legal battle over roughly $860 million that trial and appellate courts say the state Bureau of Workers’ Compensation owes to thousands of businesses has become an issue in Gov. John Kasich’s re-election campaign, the Toledo Blade newspaper reported. While the BWC has appealed the case to the state Supreme Court, a group of businesses eager for refunds has purchased television ads demanding that Kasich urge the board to drop the appeal. The ads, airing in Columbus, tend to undercut Kasich’s campaign theme that he has helped make the state more “busines...