OPINION OF THE COURT
On May 14, 1997, the claimant sustained a crush injury that resulted in right transverse process fractures at L1-4. The diagnosis related estimate (DRE) model for assessing permanent impairment from the applicable edition of the AMA Guides assigned a 5% impairment to a single transverse process fracture, but the university evaluator was of the opinion that the claimant's actual impairment from four such fractures would be much greater...
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