Flash Report: OAL: Inconvenience Is Not An Emergency

The Office of Administrative Law says that the Division of Workers Compensations emergency regulation on the predesignation of a personal physician does not rise to the level of an emergency regulation. In its official decision disapproving emergency regulatory action for predesignation, OAL says DWC did not meet its burden of proof under the Administrative Procedure Act.According to the OALs official decision, the DWC said an emergency regulation was necessary to ensure proper complia