“Ohio Employers To Receive Refunds of Overpaid Workers’ Compensation Insurance Premiums from $420 Million Settlement Reached In Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Class Action,” W. Eric

On July 23, 2014, the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation’s (the “BWC”) Administrator/CEO, Stephen Buehrer, announced that the BWC has reached a settlement in San Allen, Inc., et al. v. Stephen Buehrer, Administrator, Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (the “San Allen Case”), which will result in a pool of $420 million being distributed amongst a class of 270,000 private, Ohio employers who overpaid premiums as non-group rated employers from 2001 to 2008.