The International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions (IAIABC) is an organization of medical directors, administrators, and administrative jaw judges for workers' compensation systems. It was founded in 1914, shortly after the first workers' compensation laws were enacted in the United States. Its current membership represents 41 US states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, 9 Canadian provinces, and 3 other governments. The IAIABC exists to provide a forum for education on and discussion of the various medical, legal, and administrative issues in workers' compensation systems.
The IAIABC has recognized a number of problems inherent in the process whereby physicians rate permanent impairment in injured workers using the American Medical Association (AMA) Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (currently in its fifth edition). The current AMA Guides is supposed to provide a uniform methodology for rating...
