Legal Question in Workers Comp in California

PLEASE discuss this with your lawyer, you will be paying her thou$and$ and THOU$and$ and she should earn that! The standard Notice of Permanent Disability is just the state-required notice from the insurer indicating what the Insurance Adjuster GUESSED the Permanent Disability would come to if this report were accepted at Trial. It is NOT a contract, not an agreement. That said, my experience at that Santa Ana WCAB is the judges there prefer to award based on the QME Findings, so long as the QME was provided the medical records and evidence upon which to base the decision. Your lawyer SHOULD HAVE selected a pro-worker QME and written a letter to the QME about your position on the Whole Person Impairment from this injury. If that never happened, perhaps this lawyer will take the QME deposition to see if the QME -- when confronted with other medical evidence -- will revise the opinion.