Court Rejects Constitutional Challenges to Revised IRE Process

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania rejected a worker’s constitutional challenges to the state's revised impairment rating evaluation procedures. Case: Stanley v. Department of Transportation, No. 1234 C.D. 2022, 01/11/2024, unpublished. Facts and procedural history: Keith Stanley worked for the Department of Transportation and injured his back at work in August 2017. The DOT accepted liability for the injury and began paying temporary total disability benefits. In October 2019, after paying more than 104 weeks of benefits, the DOT requested an impairment rating evalu...