Whether your disability is full or partial depends on the impairment rating you are assigned after reaching maximum medical improvement (MMI). You reach MMI when a trained medical professional ...

The 50% impairment rating was the highest rating required in ... commonly called "The Bible," says that an NCP "is the form by which the employer unilaterally acknowledges a compensable injury." ...

Significant changes to the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act occurred with the passage of Act 57 in 1996, creating the impairment rating evaluation, or IRE, which an employer may utilize to ...