California · 2005 Permanent Disability Rating Schedule

Permanent Disability Rating

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Enter what the medical report states. Every step of the 2005 PDRS chain — earning capacity, occupation, age, apportionment, the Combined Values Chart — is applied for you, and every assumption is reported with the result. A missing figure is not a zero: if something required is absent this refuses and says what to go and find, rather than guessing.

Or start from a worked example in the schedule — the figures fill in, and the answer is the one the PDRS prints.

One arm, two impairments32%PDRS Example A, p. 7-2A limb cannot rate above losing it50%PDRS Example B, p. 7-2A whole case, four regions71%PDRS Example C, pp. 7-3–7-4

How to use this

  1. Enter the date of injury and the date of birth. Age at injury is computed and shown, never typed — a report's stated age is often the age at the exam, which can move the rating by a whole age band. Type an age only for a file with no DOB.
  2. Add one card per body part and tag its limb. Same-limb impairments combine with each other first and are capped at the limb's amputation value; the Combined Values Chart is applied for you. Adding impairments yourself overstates the result and collapses at a DEU rating.
  3. Add a report per physician. Two doctors who rate the same body part differently are rated separately and compared — findings are never merged, because merging invents a combination neither physician stated.
  4. Type a body part — "shoulder", "cervical", "knee" — and pick from the schedule; that fills the impairment number. Same for the job title, which fills the occupation group.
  5. Apportionment goes in either box, never both. "20% non-industrial" and "80% industrial" are the same finding stated two ways — they are opposites, so the wrong box inverts the answer. Enter the figure exactly as the report states it, in its own box.
  6. Read the notes on the result. Anything the engine had to assume — a defaulted occupational variant, an inferred FEC rank — is reported there, and each can move the answer by several points.

Every figure this returns is an estimate to verify against the schedule and a DEU rating — not legal advice.

1

Case

Applies to every body part below.

Worker & injury

One injury per rating. A worker with a second injury gets a separate rating and a separate award (Benson) — rating both here would overstate the case.

Is this a continuous trauma claim?

The date of injury above must then be the LC 5412 date — when disability and knowledge of work-relatedness concurred — not the end of the exposure period. That date selects the rating era, so the wrong one changes every figure.

Rating a 100% permanent total disability?

Without it the weekly figure is withheld rather than guessed — the result will say so.

No date of birth on file?

Occupation sets the variant for every body part

Presumptions & prior awardsLC 4662(a), LC 4664(b) — skip unless the file has one

Naming the region is what lets the LC 4664(c)(1) lifetime cap be checked — a prior award and this rating share a 100% ceiling within the same region.

Return to work & combining methodLC 4658(d), Kite — open if the injury is 2005–2012, or a report opines synergy

A missing figure is not a zero. If something required is absent this refuses and names it, rather than guessing. Every figure it returns is an estimate to verify against the schedule and a DEU rating — not legal advice.

2

Reports & impairments

One card per body part, as the report states it. Add a second physician and each report is rated on its own findings and compared — never merged.

Two physicians who rate the same body part differently are rated separately and compared — their findings are never merged.

Deterministic table lookup from the 2005 schedule — every step is shown, and anything assumed is flagged on the result.