A workers’ compensation judge should not have allowed an impairment assessment from a psychologist without a license to practice medicine or a certification to evaluate impairment to trump that of a licensed, certified doctor, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.
A three-judge panel in Commonwealth v. WCAB (Slessler) ruled that the workers’ compensation judge and Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board should not have used the psychologist’s testimony to rebut the evidence provided by the employer, which included the testimony from a licensed physician who is certified to conduct impairment rating evaluations, or IREs.
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