Important Cases
These Important Cases support the Course Lectures and will help you to understand the evolution of current thinking on the accuracy of "adding" versus "combining" Impairments.
Videos 1 & 2
The Precedential Cases - Kite
The Kite case unlimits Permanent Impairment ratings. This is especially important in cases that involve multiple Permanent Impairments in excess of 50% WPI because using the Combined Values Chart to combine Impairments makes it impossible to achieve a 100% (Total) Disability Rating, whereas with adding the Impairments, this is no longer a barrier.
The Kite Analysis - Part 2
The current Permanent Disability Rating Schedule is based - by law - on the AMA Guides 5th Edition. By law, the Impairment ratings provided for by the AMA Guides are presumed to be correct and accurate, unless they can be proven incorrect. And, the AMA Guides relies on use of the Combined Values Chart (CVC) when summing multiple Impairments. However, there is great opportunity to rebut the AMA Guides through the use of simple addition of multiple Impairments, versus using the compressive and reductive CVC. In this video, we review how to step outside the CVC to provide your examinee with the most accurate Impairment rating.
Videos 3 & 4
The Kite Analysis - Part 3
When it comes to providing an accurate Permanent Impairment opinion - and especially when adding Impairments (versus combining Impairments under the Combined Values Chart), your argument must must must constitute substantial medical evidence. This is easy to do and in this Live Video, we review how and when you can use simple addition to sum total your examinee's multiple Impairments.
The Kite Analysis - Part 4
Now almost 10 years after the famous Kite decision, it seems as if the Courts have definitively decided on what exactly qualifies as "substantial medical evidence" to support a medical opinion for adding - versus combining - multiple Impairments. In this Live Video, learn how recent case law reveals a simple 3 step formula that allows you to irrefutably reach the higher Impairment values, and avoid the compressive, reductive effect of the Combined Values Chart (CVC) by adding - versus combining - the Impairments.
Video 5 - How & When to Add Impairments
The Kite Decision is important for Qualified Medical Evaluators to understand. In cases where the examinee is left with Impairments of multiple body parts, it may be more accurate to add those Impairments, versus combining them through the use of the Combined Values Chart. In Today's Live Video, well respected Applicant Attorney Mason Bledsoe explains the many opportunities to add Impairments and, he shows how to write this argument up within the body of your Report.
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