Supreme Court Clarifies Law on Voluntary Abandonment

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that a worker who quit his job before recovering from a compensable injury lost his entitlement to temporary total disability benefits. Case: State ex rel. Klein, No. 15AP-908, 09/27/2018, published. Facts and procedural history: John Klein worked for the Precision Excavating & Grading Co. He suffered an on-the-job injury on Nov. 5, 2014, and the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation accepted his injury as compensable. Klein’s treating doctor took him off work until January 2015, but Klein wound up quitting his job two weeks after he got hurt. Klein te...