Emergency Med-Legal Telehealth Rules Extended

The California Division of Workers’ Compensation on Wednesday announced an extension of emergency rules allowing remote medical-legal evaluations intended to give qualified medical evaluators and injured workers more flexibility to schedule exams during the pandemic. “These emergency regulations help injured workers and employers continue to move their workers’ compensation claims toward a resolution and avoid additional and undue delay by addressing how medical-legal evaluations may proceed during this emergency period,” the DWC said in a statement. The division said...