Employer Answers Constitutional Challenge to Use of AMA Guides

The state Supreme Court on Monday received an employer's answer brief in a dispute over the constitutionality of the use of the sixth edition of the American Medical Association Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment in assigning disability ratings injured Oklahoma workers. This issue lies at the heart of three companion cases: Stubblefield v. Oasis Outsourcing, Upton v. City of Tulsa and Hill v. American Medical Response. Attorneys Richard Bell, Michael Green and Bob Burke are arguing that the mandatory use of the AMA Guides is an unconstitutional restraint on a...