Employees at the Dayton Ohio school system, which currently employs over 1,600 teachers and bus drivers, are finding themselves answering phones and performing other transitional jobs in an effort to reduce the district's escalating workers' compensation benefit payments and medical bills.
In the past three years, the district has paid out over $6 million and has the highest claim rate of any public employer in Ohio.
Ohio has one of the lowest workers' comp premium rates in the country but Dayton school officials are concerned that a history of high claim rates combined with poor risk ma...
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