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Combined Values Chart

By Jay Shergill Posted on February 16, 2009 Posted in 2005 PDRS, AMA Guides, Calculators, Combined Values Chart, Downloads, Free, PDRater, Workers Compensation Resources No Comments Tagged with 2005 schedule, ama, Ama Guidelines, Calculator, Font Chart, guides, Multiple Disabilities, Pdrs, Permanent Disability, Point Font, Reverse Engineer

A few weeks ago I posted about the Multiple Disabilities Table for combining disabilities with injuries prior to 2005.

For injuries after 2005 we must turn to the 2005 Permanent Disability Rating Schedule. When combining disabilities for injuries after 2005 there are several possible alternatives. You can:

Open up your copy of the AMA Guidelines to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, Fifth Edition to pages 604 through 606.
Open up your copy of the 2005 Permanent Disability Rating Schedule to pages 8-1 through 8-4. ((In case you’re wondering, the chart on the right is a super-condensed version of the Combined Values Chart on pages 8-2 through 8-4.))
Reverse engineer the combined values formula from the three pages of 4 point font in the Combined Values Chart. ((Honestly, I don’t recommend this. It wasn’t fun.))
OR, my personal favorite, take 30 seconds to sign up for free and use the combined values chart calculator whenever you want!

400 Registered Users!

By Jay Shergill Posted on February 13, 2009 Posted in Calculators, Case Law, Laptop, Ogilvie, PDRater, Technobabble, Website Updates, Workers Compensation Resources No Comments Tagged with 400, Adobe Flash, almaraz, almarez, Backpack, benson, blogging, Calculator, Car Road, Computer Operating System, Dell, Glasses, guzman, kitten it, Motherboard, Netbooks, Rebuttal, registered users, road warrior, Unix, Unix Epoch, Warranty, Website Photo

February has been a wacky month. And, on Friday February 13th the 400th user registered for this website. ((Photo courtesy of atxbill)) Since the 300th registered user, quite a lot has happened:

Ogilvie, Almaraz/Guzman, and Benson came down.
I wrote an Ogilvie DFEC Rebuttal Calculator.
I added to my “Road Warrior Checklists”
I ordered inexpensive glasses online:
- Cheap Online Glasses – Received!
- Cheap Online Glasses?
I wrote about Dell’s customer service:
- Dell sent a tech to my home after hours for free to fix the motherboard on my out-of-warranty laptop
- Dell offered to fix my out of warranty laptop
I wrote about how to repair a laptop:
- Repairing a laptop with a repair facility
- How to decide whether to repair or replace a laptop
  - Hint: Scroll all the way down to the end of that post for a formula to help you decide whether you should repair or replace.
- Repairing a laptop with the manufacturer
- Repairing a laptop at a “big box” store
I wrote about how NOT to build a successful website: ((Trust me, its easier than it sounds…))
- How NOT to build a successful website: Frames
- How NOT to build a successful website: Adobe Flash
I wrote about How to Buy A New Laptop: ((I have several more of these planned))
- How to Buy A New Laptop: Balancing Want and Need
- How to Buy A New Laptop: Netbooks
Besides being Friday the 13th, today has a very special meaning for the truly nerdy. Unix is a computer operating system developed back in 1969. For those of you who remember DOS, that kind of what it looked like. The up-and-coming operating system Linux is based on Unix. The Unix epoch, the time from which it starts to count “up”, was on January 1, 1970. On 2/13/2009 at 6:31:30PM ET the Unix epoch reached the time “1234567890“.

WordPress Upgrade! Version 2.7.1!

By Jay Shergill Posted on February 12, 2009 Posted in Free, Not Workers Compensation, Open Source, PDRater, Technobabble, Website Updates, Wordpress No Comments Tagged with Free Themes, Game, kitten it, New Thought, Site Builder, Ugly Websites, upgrade, Wordpress, Yahoo

I upgraded to WordPress v2.7.1 as soon as it came out (after testing on another website, of course). I can honestly say WordPress is the only software I use that I actually look forward to upgrading.

Since version 2.7 RC 1, upgrading to the next version of WordPress has been this easy:

You click “Upgrade Automatically” and wait about 5 seconds.

You’re done.

Not entirely off topic: a friend of mine asked me yesterday about the best way to put up a new website. She had thought about using Yahoo Site Builder or some such. Yahoo and its like are great at building free, quick, and ugly websites. If you’re going to publish on the internets, why not just opt for something just as easy and that has hundreds, if not thousands of possible totally free themes to choose from? I say, go with WordPress.

I used to code sites by hand – that’s a chump’s game. Just install WordPress and call it a day.

Ogilvie DFEC Calculator Launched!

By Jay Shergill Posted on February 11, 2009 Posted in 2005 PDRS, AMA Guides, Calculators, Free, Ogilvie, PDRater, Technobabble, Website Updates, Workers Compensation Resources No Comments Tagged with 2005 schedule, Beta Testers, Capacity Calculator, kitten it, new cases, rebut 2005, rebut dfec, rebut pdrs, Totally Free, wcab en banc

After some additional testing and feedback, I have launched the Ogilvie Calculator aka DFEC Calculator aka Diminished Future Earning Capacity Calculator. ((Photo courtesy of teclasorg.))

To all of my friendly beta-testers: Thank you!

So, what are you waiting for? Signing up for this website is totally free and takes 30 seconds. Log in, give it a whirl and let me know what you think.

Benson v. WCAB and The Permanente Medical Group, affirmed!

By Jay Shergill Posted on February 10, 2009 Posted in Case Law, Downloads, Free, Ogilvie, PDRater, Website Updates, Workers Compensation Resources No Comments Tagged with 899, almaraz, apportionment, benson, California Court Of Appeals, case law updates, Circumstances, Compensation Appeals Board, Compensation Attorney, Court Of Appeal, Court Of Appeal Of The State Of California, Court Of Appeals, First Appellate District, guzman, kitten it, Permanente Medical Group, sb 899, sb899, Senate Bill, separate injuries, State Of California, Upshot, Wcab, wilkinson

California Court of Appeals, First Appellate District

The First Appellate District of the Court of Appeal of the State of California has affirmed the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board in Benson v. WCAB and the Permanente Medical Group, affirmed (2/10/2009). The Court of Appeals held, in relevant part, that “[t]he Wilkinson doctrine is inconsistent with the apportionment reforms enacted by Senate Bill No. 899.”

The basic upshot is that barring “limited circumstances” each distinct industrial injury will require its own Award.

First Ogilvie and Almaraz/Guzman, now Benson? Its been an exciting two weeks to be a Workers’ Compensation attorney.

Author: Jay Shergill

Combined Values Chart

400 Registered Users!

WordPress Upgrade! Version 2.7.1!

Ogilvie DFEC Calculator Launched!

Benson v. WCAB and The Permanente Medical Group, affirmed!