Court Rejects Constitutional Challenges to New IRE Provisions

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania rejected a worker’s constitutional challenges to the state’s new impairment rating evaluation scheme but declined to impose costs and fees on him for raising the same challenges it has already rejected. Louis Kober Jr. was a police officer for the City of Philadelphia. He suffered injuries in a work-related motor vehicle accident in August 2016. Kober collected temporary total disability benefits via the Heart and Lung Act after the accident. In September 2021, Kober underwent an impairment rating evaluation by Dr. Michael B. Fischer, who a...