The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania continues to reject repetitive challenges to the constitutionality of the state's new impairment rating evaluation process.
Case: Kittles v. City of Philadelphia (WCAB), No. 1058 C.D. 2023, 09/17/2024, unpublished.
Facts: Eugene Kittles injured his leg in August 2015 while working as a police officer for the City of Philadelphia. The city accepted liability for his injury and began paying him total disability benefits.
In September 2021, Kittles underwent an impairment rating evaluation by Dr. Michael Fischer. The examination yielded an impairment ...
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