The majority in a 2-1 split Commonwealth Court decision determined that a workers' compensation judge's review of a claimant's impairment rating evaluation should have taken into account work ...

If you experience an injury at work, the amount of compensation you receive depends on which impairment rating system is used, according to research from McMaster University and the Netherlands. The ...

Hamilton, ON (December 12, 2018) - If you experience an injury at work, the amount of compensation you receive depends on which impairment rating system is used, according to research from McMaster ...

Klein then hired his own medical expert, Dr. Mark Taylor, who came back with a much higher number: 15 percent. That rating ...

CHAPEL HILL -- A study of settlement decisions in workers' compensation claims for low back pain has found almost no relationship between the rating of the disability's severity when the claim was ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Cuiellette v. City of Los Angeles (April 22, 2011) cautions employers that when an employee has been rated as 100% disabled for workers’ compensation purposes, the employer is not relieved of its ...

While the saying goes that doctors make the worst patients, in the case of plaintiff Michael Flater, it was his medical expertise and knowledge that helped secure a $150,000 workers' compensation ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Background: California's workers' compensation law experienced an historic change on January 1, 2005. Previous methods used to rate permanent ...