CHANG v. WORKERS' COMP. APPEALS BD.

No. C053854.

63 Cal.Rptr.3d 219 (2007)

153 Cal.App.4th 750

Rachel CHANG, Petitioner, v. WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD and State Compensation Insurance Fund, Respondents.

Court of Appeal of California, Third District.

July 24, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frailing, Rockwell & Kelly and John B. Frailing, Modesto, for Petitioner.

Farrell, Fraulob & Brown, Melissa C. Brown, Sacramento; DuRard, McKenna & Borg and Susan R. Borg, San Mateo, for California Applicants' Attorneys Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

Robert W. Daneri, Chief Counsel, Suzanne Ah-Tye, Assistant Chief Counsel, and David M. Goi, Senior Appellate Counsel, for Respondent State Compensation Insurance Fund.

Law Offices of Saul Allweiss and Michael A. Marks, San Francisco, for California Workers' Compensation Institute as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Respondent State Compensation Insurance Fund.

No appearance for Respondent Workers' Compensation Appeals Board.


RAYE, Acting P.J.

The sole question of law presented by this petition for a writ of review is whether Labor Code section 4660, as amended in 2004, requires the use of a permanent disability rating schedule effective January 1, 2005, to apply to injuries sustained before the schedule was adopted when none of the three exceptions set forth in subdivision (d) of section 4660 apply.1 In Aldi v. Carr, McClellan, Ingersoll, Thompson &...

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