Nevada Regulators Examining Apportionment

The Nevada Division of Industrial Relations (DIR) is soliciting recommendations to revamp the way it apportions benefits when it reopens claims on prior injuries. The agency is under pressure from critics who say the current apportionment system inflates benefits in some cases by tens of thousands of dollars. Smiddy Lamb, chief of the medical unit in DIR's Workers' Compensation Section, said Monday the system may too often miscalculate payments for injuries that occurred when an earlier edition of the American Medical Association's impairment guidelines was in force in Nevada. Lamb br...