September 25, 2006

Source: WorkInjury.com
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In an unpublished opinion, the Fifth District Court of Appeal has ruled that conflicting medical reports are not to be re-weighed on appeal -- despite the "liberal construction" statutory mandate of the Labor Code -- unless a report is "illogical, unreasonable, improbable, or inequitable."

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