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– New Lawyer Tricks: Attempting to Get Around the PD Schedule

By: Workers' Comp Executive - The journal of record for the workers' comp community in California.

Applicants' attorneys have come up with a new scheme to circumvent the new Permanent Disability Rating Schedule by using loss-of-work capacity evidence from a voc rehab specialist to jack up PD awards. The attorneys' goals? Undermine the new PD schedule, boost disability awards for injured workers and increase their own fees.No less than the future of the governor's California workers' comp reform is at stake. The applicants' attorneys' actions are likely to increase cost drivers in me

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