The Importance of Holmstrom v. MetLife to FCE Evaluators
Posted on Wed, Sep 22, 2010 @ 12:05 PM
Thinking about last month's medico-legal webinar (Holmstrom v. MetLife - September 2nd) and I thought of just how important this case is to functional capacity evaluators and work capacity evaluators.
Through this ERISA case, the Court examines a long list of issues while affirming precedent from other recent federal opinions. This case rejects a physician-prepared FCE, affirms a thorough "reliable and valid" FCE, discusses the type of periodic review of disabled claimants that may vastly expand the application of work capacity evaluation skills, further highlights the difference between impairment and work-related disability, raises the ever-present requirement for referral sources and evaluators to accurately identify evaluation questions, and finally, illustrates the vast difference between an impairment-focused physician and the "Thinking Evaluator" in cases that require work disability answers.
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