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The New Intoxication Defense For Ohio Employers, Terry A. Donner
The New Intoxication Defense For Ohio Employers, Terry A. Donner
Cleveland State Law Review
Ohio workers' compensation system has been in a state of emergency for the last two years as labor and business groups battled over a series of employee-oriented Ohio Supreme Court decisions. Labor groups hailed these decisions as the vehicle which would propel Ohio's workers' compensation law into the twentieth century. Conversely, business groups condemned the decisions asserting that they exposed Ohio employers to infinite liability and destroyed Ohio's industrial climate. S.B. 307 has changed the face of Ohio's workers' compensation law by revamping the definition of injury, establishing an intentional tort fund, and creating a new intoxication defense for Ohio …