617.459 - Determination of percentage of disability resulting from heart or lung diseases.
617.459 Determination of percentage of disability resulting from heart or lung diseases.
1. The percentage of disability resulting from an occupational disease of the heart or lungs must be determined jointly by the claimant’s attending physician and the examining physician designated by the insurer, in accordance with the American Medical Association’s Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment as adopted and supplemented by the Division pursuant to NRS 616C.110.
2. If the claimant’s attending physician and the designated examining physician do not agree upon the percentage of disability, they shall designate a physician specializing in the branch of medicine which pertains to the disease in question to make the determination. If they do not agree upon the designation of such a physician, each shall choose one physician so specializing, and two physicians so chosen shall choose a third specialist in that branch. The resulting panel of three physicians shall, by majority vote, determine the percentage of disability in accordance with the American Medical Association’s Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment as adopted and supplemented by the Division pursuant to NRS 616C.110.
(Added to NRS by 1981, 850; A 1981, 1538; 1987, 1313; 1991, 494, 2431; 1993, 1879; 1995, 2162)