State ex rel. Drone v. Indus. Comm.

**Ohio Court Rules on Workers' Compensation Payment Errors** This case involved a worker whose compensation benefits were calculated incorrectly, resulting in years of underpayments. The error occurred when calculating the worker's average weekly wage, which is used to determine how much workers' compensation someone should receive. When the Bureau of Workers' Compensation discovered the mistake, they wanted to limit any corrections to only the two years before they found the error. The Ohio Court of Appeals disagreed with this limited approach. The court ruled that the Industrial Commission must recalculate and adjust all compensation payments that were made incorrectly, not just payments from the previous two years. This means the worker should receive back payments for the entire period they were underpaid. This decision is important for workers because it establishes that when errors are made in workers' compensation calculations, the corrections must cover the full time period of underpayment, not just a limited window. Workers who discover they've been underpaid due to calculation errors may be entitled to receive all the money they should have gotten from the beginning of their claim, potentially going back several years.