Worker Attorneys Warn 'Whacking' Has Begun in AMA Guides Fight

Attorneys for five injured workers who filed a federal lawsuit contesting South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's executive orders mandating the use of American Medical Association (AMA) impairment guides warned that officials of the Workers' Compensation Commission have been "whacked" for refusing to follow Sanford's 2007 orders.Kathryn Williams and Tom Ervin, who represent injured Dollar General store worker Susan Monaco and four workers who joined her in the case, renewed a call in court documents filed in Greenville, S.C., last Thursday to lift the stay in a federal lawsuit over the...