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.
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.
I launched the Ogilvie DFEC Rebuttal Calculator on Saturday morning to a select group of beta-testers. ((By “select group” I mean anyone who asked me if they could help.)) When I upgraded a person’s access to the website they had no problem seeing the workers’ compensation calculator.
Unfortunately, not one of them was able to actually use the thing. Last night my wife suggests the problem might be, “maybe they are using a different version or its not refreshed or something”?
And you know what? She was right. My wife, the hacker. ((Photo courtesy of gutter.))
I’ve written several protections into these calculators to insulate my users from having to deal with problems or bugs from newly installed code. I would much rather a user sees nothing than get a wrong answer. And nothing is exactly what my users saw. I had remembered to allow my beta testers to see the Ogilvie DFEC Rebuttal Calculator – but forgot to give them access to calculator.
So, the beta-test period will continue for another day or two while I await feedback from my users.
If you’d like to see what the Ogilvie DFEC Rebuttal Calculator looks like or want to try to use it, just sign up for free and shoot me an e-mail asking for access.
I’m going to delay the launch of the Ogilvie DFEC rebuttal calculator for a day or two. ((Photo courtesy of mhuang)) I believe it works just fine, but I would like to test it a little more. This said, I will grant anyone who is interested access to this calculator.
Why the delay? Well…
The interesting thing about taking apart a set of calculations is that you find all sorts of “hidden steps” to the calculation. The majority in Ogilvie does a respectible job of going through the steps of this new formula and even gives several examples.
When performing most calculations one will need to round numbers at some point. However, rounding almost invariably takes place at the very end. In the case of the Ogilvie calculations, it appears that the WCAB rounds various figures throughout the calculation.
Even though the DFEC rebuttal calculator was giving correct answers, the fourth or fifth decimal places on some intermediary figures occasionally did not coming out right. It took me a little while to track down all the spots where the WCAB was implicitly rounding their figures (and to what decimal place!).
I am fairly confident the calculator will work without a hitch, but I’m going to test it a little more before I make it available to the public. If you’re interested in testing this Ogilvie DFEC rebuttal calculator, please drop me a line and let me know.
If you’re not a registered user for this website, its free to sign up and free to use all the workers’ compensation calculators. Seriously, free as in free!
Earlier today I installed an Ogilvie v. City and County of SF DFEC Rebuttal calculator into the free workers’ compensation calculators page on this website. ((Photo courtesy of Draggin)) ((I had this EXACT same calculator as a kid!)) ((Why, how did you spend your Friday night?)) For the moment it is only available to people who have signed up for this website and asked to be a beta tester. If all goes well, I’ll flip a switch and make it available to the public on Monday morning.
At the moment it requires four pieces of information:
Once you add in that information, click “Calculate” and it should crunch through the formula and give you a response. The WCAB in Ogilvie suggested several possible outcomes to this formula:
Obviously, there are innumerable factors that go into considerations of whether a Judge (or the WCAB) would find the DFEC portion of the 2005 Permanent Disability Rating Schedule to be rebutted. This calculation and the information relied upon in performing this calculation cannot be taken as a guarranteed method of rebutting the DFEC portion of the 2005 Permanent Disability Rating Schedule.
If you’re not a registered user for this website, its free to sign up and free to use all the workers’ compensation calculators. That’s right: free as in free.
