[This opinion has been published in Ohio Official Reports at 83 Ohio St.3d 134.]

THE STATE EX REL. NEUMANN, APPELLANT, v. INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF OHIO, APPELLEE. [Cite as State ex rel. Neumann v. Indus. Comm., 1998-Ohio-153.]

Workers’ compensation—Court of appeals’ judgment reversed and State ex rel.

Gay relief ordered. (No. 96-2444—Submitted July 15, 1998—Decided September 16, 1998.)

APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Franklin County, No. 95APD12-1648. __________________ Mitchell, Allen, Catalano & Boda Co., L.P.A., William A. Catalano and Richard A. Cline, for appellant.

Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, and Laurel Blum Mazorow, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee. __________________ {¶ 1} The judgment of the court of appeals is reversed. The cause is returned to the Industrial Commission for relief consistent with State ex rel. Gay v. Mihm (1994), 68 Ohio St.3d 315, 626 N.E.2d 666.

DOUGLAS, RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY and PFEIFER, JJ., concur.

MOYER, C.J., dissents.

COOK and LUNDBERG STRATTON, JJ., dissent. __________________ LUNDBERG STRATTON, J., dissenting. {¶ 2} I dissent and would affirm the court of appeals.

COOK, J., concurs in the foregoing dissenting opinion. __________________