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The Ohio Supreme Court affirmed that R.C. 2744.09(B) applies to Piazza's false-light invasion of privacy claim against Cuyahoga County, rejecting the county's assertion of political-subdivision immunity. The court held that the statute does not require an ongoing employment relationship and that the claim arose out of the employment relationship.
Political-subdivision tort liability—R.C. 2744.09(B)'s exception to immunity for civil actions by an employee "relative to any matter that arises out of the employment relationship between the employee and the political subdivision"—R.C. 2744.09(B) does not require that the alleged tortious conduct underlying a claim against a political subdivision have occurred during the plaintiff's employment by the political subdivision—Plaintiff's claim for false-light invasion of privacy is relative to a matter that arose out of her employment relationship with county—Court of appeals' judgment affirming trial court's rejection of county's assertion of immunity affirmed.
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Mandamus—Labor relations—Public employees—R.C. Ch. 4117—State Employment Relations Board abused its discretion in dismissing public employee's unfair-labor-practice charge against employer because employer did not have authority to determine that employee's notice to arbitrate was untimely under collective-bargaining agreement—Board abused its discretion when it dismissed public employee's unfair-labor-practice charge against union without providing basic rationale for dismissal—Board did not abuse its discretion when it dismissed public employee's additional unfair-labor-practice charge against union, because union acted in accordance with public employee's waiver of union representation—Court of appeals' judgment granting writ of mandamus affirmed in part and reversed in part.
Workers' compensation—Temporary-total-disability compensation—R.C. 4123.56—Employee who had already been terminated for violation of employment policies before his shoulder surgery was not "unable to work" as "direct result of an impairment arising from an injury or occupational disease" under plain language of R.C. 4123.56(F) and thus was not entitled to receive temporary-total-disability compensation—Court of appeals' judgment reversed and writ granted.
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