The WCMSA Conundrum in California, by Robert G. Rassp, Esq. The following email string is true, accurate and correct. It is a typical email string between an applicant's attorney and a defense attorney. We all have cases like this in our inventories. In this case, the Applicant was a medical laboratory technologist who sustained admitted injuries to her lumbar spine and bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome on a cumulative trauma basis and is status post lumbar discectomy and wrist surgeries. The case originally had a stipulated award for 36% PD and was timely reopened. The orthopedic AME opined that she now has a 45% permanent disability. The date of injury is a cumulative trauma that ended over five years ago...Read more.

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