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Yeah they handle personal injury and criminal as well.

If you have a workers comp claim you doctor needs to submit treatment requests to the MCO (managed care organization). If the MCO denies that treatment, then your attorney needs to file an appeal of that denied treatment. The treatment denial will trigger the BWC to submit the denial to the ADR (alternative dispute resolution process). Ultimately the treatment denial will be set for a hearing before the Industrial Commission. You and your attorney will present arguments and evidence as to why the treatment should be allowed. The hearing officer will then make a decision to either authorize the treatment or deny the treatment. This article walks through the process of how a denied MRI might proceed through the workers comp process: https://www.maleklawfirm.com/news/workers-comp-showdown-at-the-ohio-industrial-commission-part-two/

Depends on what level of the claim is denied. Bottomline if your claim is denied, contact a workers comp attorney for help. You are stepping in dangerous territory which if you do not do things correctly can result in your claim being permanently denied. If you have filed your claim and the BWC has denied it, the BWC will issue a BWC order denying the claim. You will need to have appealed that order within 14 days. Then the issue will be submitted to the Industrial Commission for a hearing. If the District Hearing Officer denies the claim, you will need to appeal the IC order, again this must be done within 14 days. If the SHO Hearing Officer denies the claim, you must appeal this order within 14 days. After this point the Industrial Commission will issue a final order. You must then submit an appeal and complaint in the county where the injury occurred. This must be done within 60 days of the IC's final order.

If you have an allowed workers comp claim there are many forms of comp you may be entitled to. The most common are as follows: temporary total disability compensation (ttd) : comp you are entitled to while you are temporarily off work percentage partial impairment award (ppd) or C92 award: an award of compensation for the amount of permanent impairment you have received for your work injury. This video details the PPD C92 award here: https://youtu.be/kT2qSlkN5mE permanent total disability (PTD): this is the type of comp you are entitled to if you are found permanently and totally disabled

If you are off work due to your work injury, your Ohio BWC provider will complete a document certifying you temporary and totally disabled in a Medco-14. You will submit a request for compensation in a form called a C-84. The BWC will process your request and either issue compensation or deny compensation at which point your attorney would appeal this denial. You and your attorney will attend a hearing at the Ohio Industrial Commission. The hearing officer will then decide whether you are entitled to temporary total compensation. The following videos detail the process here: Medco14 --> https://youtu.be/kSO-Vtag928 C84 --> https://youtu.be/W8RWM1NeqkY

Im not sure call malek and malek monday they will answer ur questions

Well. The hearing officers, judges, magistrates are people with their own political leanings and personal ethics/idiosyncrasys. In terms of hearing officers at the Industrial Commission some hearing officer lean more towards the employers position, some more towards the injured. The best hearing officers weigh the facts/evidence presented, with the testimony of the injured worker in a balanced, non-biased manner. Just to go a step further, at the Industrial Commission you have a hearing officer who acts essentially as both Judge and Jury. At a Common Pleas trial you have a Judge/Magistrate who again may lean on the conservative side or liberal side. Then you have the Jury, and they can be all over the place, but in Ohio, and in particular Franklin County, they are more conservative than liberal. The process can be very frustrating to injured workers. It goes without saying, there is no bending of the law at the Industrial Commission and or Court of Common Pleas.

If its workers comp, the deceased's wife and children would be able to pursue their own separate claim and receive benefits from the Ohio BWC. We've helped a number of families with this process.