One detail about her exit flipped the outcome for the employer
An Ohio appeals court reinstated an injured worker's disability benefits, ruling her retirement did not sever the link to her injury.
The Tenth District Court of Appeals of Ohio granted a writ of mandamus on July 30, 2026, ordering the Industrial Commission of Ohio to vacate its decision cutting off temporary total disability, or TTD, payments to an employee of Metallus Inc., formerly TimkenSteel Corporation.
The case turned on timing. The worker injured her right forearm on the job in March 2022 and kept working light duty until she had surgery on October 20, 2022. Her surgeon signed forms taking her off work through March 2023. Metallus began paying TTD - the wage-replacement benefit injured workers receive while they cannot return to their old job - on the day of the surgery.
Weeks later, while collecting those benefits, she finalized an early full-pension retirement, effective November 28, 2022. She had told the employer's third-party administrator months earlier that she planned to retire before December to maximize her pension, and testified the lump sum came to more than $100,000. The employer then moved to end her TTD, arguing she had voluntarily abandoned her job.
The commission agreed and terminated the payments. Its order leaned on R.C. 4123.56(F), a provision Ohio lawmakers added to scrap the old "voluntary abandonment" rule - the idea that quitting or retiring could forfeit benefits - and replace...
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