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PRELIMINARY VIEW OF NEW REGULATIONS DOWNLOAD

BENSON DECISION UPHELD by the First Appellate District 2/10/2009 holding that separate awards should issue for separate claims of injury, overturning Wilkinson decision DOWNLOAD

ALMAREZ/GUZMAN DECISION, WCAB en banc February 3, 2009. The AMA Guides may be rebutted by showing that an impairment rating based on the AMA Guides would result in a permanent disability award that would be "inequitable, disproportionate and not a fair and accurate measure of the employee's permanent disability" DOWNLOAD

OGILVIE DECISION, WCAB en banc, February 3, 2009. The diminished future earning capacity (DFEC) portion of the 2005 rating schedule is rebuttable using a mathematical formula that involves obtaining wage data and calculating the employee's individualized proportional earnings loss DOWNLOAD