The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board said it lacks jurisdiction to address the appointment of qualified medical evaluators in dismissing a petition filed by a Southern California cardiologist who said his application for reappointment was improperly denied.
Dr. Benjamin Simon on Feb. 23 filed a petition arguing that the Division of Workers’ Compensation relied on underground rules to deny his reappointment as a QME. He requested immediate reinstatement as a QME retroactive to when his term expired July 15, 2017, as well as an order prohibiting the division from using the allege...
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