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Trial Practice And Tactics In Employee Injury Cases -- The Plaintiff's Viewpoint, Benjamin Marcus
Trial Practice And Tactics In Employee Injury Cases -- The Plaintiff's Viewpoint, Benjamin Marcus
Vanderbilt Law Review
The author, a practitioner with extensive experience in the workmen's compensation field, sets out a number of "do's" and "don't's" for the successful representation of plaintiffs in employee injury cases, especially with regard to the handling of medical evidence. He also points out defects in the existing law, and calls upon the bar to fulfill its social role by supporting remedial legislation.
Medical Evaluation Of Impairment -- Not Disability, Dwight M. Palmer
Medical Evaluation Of Impairment -- Not Disability, Dwight M. Palmer
Vanderbilt Law Review
Evaluation of physical impairment is a procedure involving purely medical considerations. Rating of disability, on the other hand, involves a host of psychological, sociological, and economic factors. However, doctors, who are especially qualified to rate impairment, are often called upon to evaluate disability, for which function they are not so qualified. Dr. Palmer discusses the prevailing confusion between these two concepts, and sets out the work and proposals of the A.M.A. in this area.