New Regulations for Rating Doctors in Effect

The Nevada Division of Industrial Relations (DIR) adopted revised regulations to require doctors and chiropractors to take more training and pass an examination to rate permanent partial disability, and setting out requirements for compensating injured workers. The regulations were proposed in January, considered at a public hearing Feb. 14, adopted May 12 and became effective June 1. The regulations require that a rating physician or chiropractor have "an appropriate level of training, as determined by the administrator, related to industrial health from a nationally recognized program tha...