Smart v. Department of Public Safety

[¶ 1] The Department of Public Safety appeals from a decision of a Workers’ Compensation Board hearing officer {Sprague, HO) denying its petition for review and assigning a permanent impairment rating of 40% to Arnold Smart for a 1996 mental stress injury resulting from work-related mental stress. The Department contends that it was error to assign a permanent impairment rating to Smart’s injury based on the lack of specific numerical ratings for mental and behavioral conditions in the American Medical Association, Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (4th ed. 1993) (AMA Guides),…