Opinion
No. 86-1519
Decided July 1, 1987.
Workers' compensation — Surety for insolvent self-insured employer is "employer" within meaning of R.C. 4123.01(B), when — Surety may participate in benefit determination proceedings, when.
CERTIFIED by the Court of Appeals for Franklin County.
Gallon, Kalniz Iorio Co., L.P.A., James A. Whittaker and William E. Takacs, for appellee Sheridan Riffe, Jr.
Bugbee Conkle, Gregory B. Denny and Robert L. Solt III, for appellant.
Anthony J. Celebrezze, Jr., attorney general, Janet E. Jackson and Michael L. Squillace, for appellee Mayfield, Admr.
The judgment in this cause, having been certified by the court of appeals in case Nos. 85AP-538 and 85AP-545 as being in conflict with Holben v. Interstate Motor Freight System (October 18, 1985), Lucas App. Nos. L-85-036, L-85-037 and L-85-053, unreported, is hereby reversed on authority of Holben v. Interstate Motor Freight System (1987), 31 Ohio St.3d 152, 31 OBR 318, 509 N.E.2d 938, and the cause is remanded to the trial court.
MOYER, C.J., SWEENEY, HOLMES, WRIGHT and H. BROWN, JJ., concur.
LOCHER and DOUGLAS, JJ., dissent.
I respectfully dissent for the reasons expressed in my dissent in Holben v. Interstate Motor Freight System (1987), 31 Ohio St.3d 152, 31 OBR 318, 509 N.E.2d 938.
DOUGLAS, J., concurs in the foregoing dissenting opinion.