Court Rejects Constitutional Challenges to IRE Process

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania rejected a worker’s constitutional challenges to the state's new impairment rating evaluation process. Douglas Bellamy worked for the City of Philadelphia. He suffered injuries in a fall at work in December 2009. The city stipulated that the accident caused an aggravation of Bellamy’s preexisting cervical degeneration, leading to acute herniation at the C3-C7 levels with progressive cervical myelopathy. The city began paying benefits to Bellamy at a total disability rate. In December 2014, Bellamy underwent an impairment rating ev...