Refusal to Recalculate Wages Upheld

A magistrate properly applied the law in denying a man's request that his average weekly wage be readjusted, an Ohio appellate court ruled the day before the state Supreme Court set a new precedent by rejecting case findings that formed the foundation for the magistrate's decision. The Ohio 10th District Court of Appeals in Howell v. Industrial Commission of Ohio, no. 05AP-788 (7/18/06) agreed with the magistrate who denied Wayne Howell's request for a judicial order that his average weekly wage be recalculated to a higher dollar figure. On March 2, 1979, Howell sustained an industrial in...