Focus (Forum & Focus)
May 25, 2007
Compensation Complications
Forum Column — By Linda F. Atcherley — A workers’ compensation judge’s decision means no valid permanent disability rating schedule covers injuries after Jan. 1, 2005. It is, at best, an open question about how to prove an injured worker’s percentage of disability.
By Linda F. Atcherley
On May 9, 2007, a trial judge at the San Francisco office of the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board issued a 53-page decision finding that the Permanent Disability Rating Schedule promulgated by Administrative Director Andrea Hoch was invalid because Hoch had not followed the Labor Code in setting the "conversion factors" contained in the schedule. Boughner v. Comp USA Inc., SFO491230...
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