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Here’s the fourth batch of advanced postings for the December 2012 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases. Lexis.com subscribers can link to the cases to read the complete headnotes and summaries. © Copyright 2012 LexisNexis. All rights reserved. ...

Based upon the presentation of Workers' Compensation Commissinoer Dwight T. Lovan at the 17th Biennial Workers Compensation Institute that was held in Lexington, KY on October 16th & 17th, 2008, the following proposals are being considered as...

This position paper was originally published as a part of the Iowa Task Force Report regarding the use of The Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, Fifth Edition or The Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, Sixth Edition in the...

Brian J. Caveney, MD, JD, MPH, is the new Editor-in-Chief of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses , which includes a new volume called the AMA Guides Handbook ($59, price effective thru 7/31/2010). The Handbook contains case summaries of key AMA Guides...

Last year I blogged about Governor Sanford's executive orders mandating the use of the AMA Guides in the state's workers' compensation system. On July 17, 2008, the political standoff between the Governor and the state Workers' Compensation...

In evaluating permanent impairment, practitioners using the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act are sometimes confused as to the application of the AMA guides (American Medical Association, Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairments...

Since its publication, the Sixth Edition of the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment has met with stiff criticism. It has been described as a step back in fairly assessing work injuries by many legal and medical experts. Several States...

Based upon the presentation of Workers' Compensation Commissinoer Dwight T. Lovan at the 17th Biennial Workers Compensation Institute that was held in Lexington, KY on October 16th & 17th, 2008, the following proposals are being considered as...

The publication of the Sixth Edition of the AMA Guides and its pronounced divergence from previous editions aroused a controversy of sorts within the Kentucky workers’ compensation community, not to mention other jurisdictions relying on the publication...

An interesting case from Virginia decided in early 2010 illustrates how states are looking for guidance on the AMA Guides and have found authoritative analysis in Robert G. Rassp’s The Lawyer’s Guide to the AMA Guides and California Workers’...

In 2006 the claimant was struck in the head by a falling box. Prior to the litigation in question, there was a voluntary award of 5% impairment to the brain; the testimony of Dr. John Townsend (for the claimant) suggests the rating was based upon depression...

According to a recent poll of businesses on compliance issues, workers' compensation ranks as one of the most complicated set of laws, right up there with the tax code. In California this problem wasn't made any easier when the state legislature...

Here’s the fourth batch of advanced postings for the December 2012 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases. Lexis.com subscribers can link to the cases to read the complete headnotes and summaries. © Copyright 2012 LexisNexis. All rights reserved....

As I gaze back over this rapidly closing year and try to describe the dominant issues that have engaged those of us within the workers' compensation arena, I am mindful of the story of the three blind men who were asked to describe an elephant. Their...

The year 2010 was a very interesting year in our workers’ compensation system — the sixth year of SB 899 and now the sixth edition of The Lawyer’s Guide to the AMA Guides and California Workers’ Compensation. We have seen the evolution...