PD Schedule Shaping Next Calif. Court Battle

Appellate courts within California are taking up separate cases to settle when to use the 1997 or the 2005 Permanent Disability Rating Schedule, meaning that final resolution could be stalled by conflicting opinions. San Francisco, Sacramento and San Jose appeals courts are compiling permanent disability rating schedule cases for review, creating a possibility of a split among the districts like what happened with the apportionment formula. The 1st, 3rd and 6th districts in recent weeks have accepted at least two cases each involving the exceptions in Labor Code Section 4660(d). All of...