Ohio Gov. Bob Taft has named a career employee as the interimadministrator of the troubled Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensationas the fallout from its controversial decision to invest in $50million in rare coins continues.

Gov. Taft also created a management review team of stateemployees to help the new administrator as well as "evaluate" theagency's investment portfolio.

The actions were prompted by the decision of the agency's formerCEO to step down following disclosure by lawyers for a coin dealerand political activist in the state that $12 million of theagency's $50 million investment in rare coins was missing.

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