CAAA Loses Round One in PDRS Challenge

The California Applicants' Attorneys Association has lost the first round in its challenge to the state's new Permanent Disability Rating Schedule. A workers' compensation judge in Grover Beach rejected as evidence a report on the impact of the new rating schedule that CAAA had hoped to use to prove that the rating schedule adopted by the Division of Workers' Compensation does not comply with Senate Bill 899. In Joey M. Costa vs. Hardy Media Inc. and State Compensation Insurance Fund, GRO 0031810, Administrative Law Judge Bruce M. Lang refused to accept deposition testimony by University ...