Kansas’ workers’ compensation system is not an adequate stand-in for the right to sue employers for workplace injuries so long as the latest edition of the American Medical Associations’ guides are being used to determine impairment ratings, the Court of Appeals ruled Friday.
The court, in its decision in Johnson v. U.S. Food Service, said the move to the sixth edition of the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment for people injured on or after Jan. 1, 2015, leaves workers who suffer a permanent impairment without a remedy.
The court said the sixth edition is ...
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