Bureau Cancels Impairment Rating Decisions in Wake of Protz Ruling

The Pennsylvania Bureau of Workers' Compensation has suspended all independent rating evaluations in reaction to last week's Supreme Court decision striking down the impairment rating evaluation process as unconstitutional. The bureau sent a notice to stakeholders through its electronic claims filing system indicating that the agency will no longer designate physicians to perform IREs. Philadelphia-area law firm Brilliant & Neiman LLC posted the notice on its blog on Thursday, one day after publishing a blog post updating its own clients about the Protz v. WCAB ...