Judge to Set BWC Restitution after March 14 Hearing

A state court will decide how much the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation owes businesses for premium overcharges during a March 14 hearing. The Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court will finalize restitution amounts for 270,000 businesses during an upcoming hearing, according to an article in the Middletown Journal. The newspaper reported that the BWC plans to appeal Judge Richard McMonagle's decision, which concluded that the BWC knowingly created an inequitable system to overcharge hundreds of thousands of Ohio businesses between 2001 and 2008. Plaintiffs' attorneys have estimate...