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Oral Argument Today in Dispute Over 'Most Recent' AMA Guidelines

By WorkCompCentral

Tuesday, November 1, 2016 | 0

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will hear oral argument today in a dispute over the way doctors rate a worker's disability from an industrial injury. Last September, a narrowly divided Commonwealth Court struck down a provision of the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act that required doctors to use the "most recent" version of the American Medical Association Guides for the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment. In Protz v. WCAB (Derry Area School District), the Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether this statutory requirement was an unconstitutional delegation ...

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