Court Opinion

ID: 9803418
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 15:37:29.551488+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:03:08.889520
License: Public Domain

ROBB, Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the majority opinion. However, I write separately to point out that what Fishburn characterizes as a "benefit formula" not authorized by statute, see Brief of the Appellant at 9, is in fact just a straightforward mathematical computation to determine where any given impairment rating falls on the continuum set by the legislature in section 36-8-8-18.5(Ff). In other words, the statute allows an additional monthly benefit on a seale from 10% to 45% based on an impairment rating from 1% to 100% and INPRS's memo does not establish a formula but simply de-seribes the mathematical method of determining that correlation.