IG Clears Hearing Officers Who Attended Attorneys' Hot Tub Party

By Peter MantiusNorthern Bureau ChiefA group of Industrial Commission of Ohio hearing officers who attended a hot tub party thrown by two Cleveland workers’ compensation defense attorneys who plead cases in front of them “created an appearance of impropriety,” the state’s top government watchdog said in a June 9 report.But Inspector General Randall J. Meyer found the hearing officers violated no laws or policies, and he referred the case to the chairman of the commission to decide whether “administrative action or additional training” is called for.Meye...