By John P. Kamin, Legal EditorGet CEs for reading this column, click here!Applicants' attorneys have developed a new challenge to limiting pain awards to the 3% impairment rating add-on in an effort to obtain a much larger award for cases where the applicant has a severe pain disorder, such as chronic pain syndrome.Applicants' attorneys Art Johnson and Bradley Chalk outlined Thursday a rebuttal strategy that combines two tables of the AMA Guides that would show the 3% pain "add-on" to an impairment rating would be inadequate in cases where the applicant suffers from severe pain. The co...
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