Oklahoma Tax Commission v. Evans

REIF, Judge.

The State Insurance Fund seeks review of the three-judge panel’s order that modified the trial court’s award by combining permanent partial impairment to both of Claimant’s hands into permanent partial impairment to the body as a whole. The State Fund acknowledges that the hands are “scheduled members” under 85 O.S.Supp.1990 § 22, and that 85 O.S.Supp. 1990 § 8(11) provides an exception for utilizing the AMA Guides in evaluating permanent impairment of scheduled members. However, the State Fund contends that the exception for evaluating impairment to the scheduled members…