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This case involves a dispute over which workers' compensation permanent disability rating schedule to apply. The applicant sustained injury before January 1, 2005, but the defense QME report determining her permanent and stationary status was dated November 2004 but not signed until February 2005. The Appeals Board granted reconsideration to apply the 1997 Schedule, finding that the date of the physician's evaluation, not the signing date of the report, should control when an exception to the 2005 Schedule is invoked for pre-2005 injuries.
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This case involves a dispute over which workers' compensation permanent disability rating schedule to apply. The applicant sustained injury before January 1, 2005, but the defense QME report determining her permanent and stationary status was dated November 2004 but not signed until February 2005. The Appeals Board granted reconsideration to apply the 1997 Schedule, finding that the date of the physician's evaluation, not the signing date of the report, should control when an exception to the 2005 Schedule is invoked for pre-2005 injuries.
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