Proposed impairment guidelines released by the state Workers’ Compensation Board last week could eliminate many schedule loss of use awards, based on a limited study by the Workers’ Compensation Alliance.
The alliance said it will wage an “all-our war” against the draft guidelines.
WCA said it pulled at random 17 recent independent medical examiner reports on 17 injured workers and calculated what they would receive under the current guidelines compared to the ones proposed.
The alliance made three different assumptions of each worker’s avera...
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