IMR: Whose Rules Apply?

The Fight is On: “What you think you heard me say is not what I think I said,” I remarked the other day when I was misquoted on an interpretation of the law. A legislator’s favorite comment to the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board might as well be, “What I think I wrote is not what you think you read!” So it was with a pair of decisions that have recently come from WCAB commissioner panels dealing with the effect of an independent medical review that has not been conducted within the statutory time limits. In the case of Norberto Arredondo v Tri-Modal ...