N.Y. Comp Alliance Vows Continued Opposition to AMA Guides

The New York Workers' Compensation Alliance said it has received assurances from a leader of the New York Assembly that the American Medical Association's impairment guides won't enter into the workers' compensation system but warned a state contract with a key editor of the guides could impact the way judges calculate scheduled loss-of-use in permanent disability cases.Troy Rosasco, co-chairman of the alliance, said Tuesday the association of claimants' lawyers and other workers' advocates is awaiting a response to its formal demand for a copy of the Dec. 20, 2007, con...