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Emergency Regulations for Medical-Legal Evaluations in California: What You Need to Know

The surge in infections related to the Omicron variant led the California Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) to adopt emergency regulations for medical-legal evaluations that allow Qualified Medical Evaluators (QME) and Agreed Medical Evaluators (AME) to perform medical-legal evaluations using telehealth.  These regulations will remain in place from January 18, 2022, until July 19, 2022,…