5.65.230 Permanent partial disability.
(a) For purposes of this chapter, “permanent partial disability” means a permanent disability with a rating of less than 70 percent disability.
(b) In determining the percentage of permanent partial disability, the administrator shall take account of the nature of the physical injury or disfigurement, the occupation of the injured worker, and the employee’s age at the time of the injury, with consideration given to the diminished ability of the employee to compete in an open labor market.
(1) The administrator may rely on the schedule of the American Medical Association’s Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment in determining the percentage of permanent disability, but the guides are not prima facie evidence of a percentage of disability.
(2) The benefits payable to an injured employee as a result of a compensable injury resulting in permanent partial disability of the employee shall be parallel to those benefits recoverable under state law at the time of the compensable injury was sustained. [Ord. 47 § 1403, adopted, 11/10/2016.]