New Mexico § 52-1-25 Permanent total disability

New Mexico Statutes

§ 52-1-25 — Permanent total disability

New Mexico § 52-1-25

Ch. 52Workers' Compensation

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Bluebook

N.M. Stat. Ann. § 52-1-25 (2026).

Text

A. As used in the Workers' Compensation Act, "permanent total disability" means:

(1)the permanent and total loss or loss of use of both hands or both arms or both feet or both legs or both eyes or any two of them; or (2) a brain injury resulting from a single traumatic work-related injury that causes, exclusive of the contribution to the impairment rating arising from any other impairment to any other body part, or any preexisting impairments of any kind, a permanent impairment of thirty percent or more as determined by the current American medical association guide to the evaluation of permanent impairment. B. In considering a claim for total disability, a workers' compensation judge shall not receive or consider the testimony of a vocational rehabilitation provider offered for the purpo

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A. As used in the Workers' Compensation Act, "permanent total disability" means: (1) the permanent and total loss or loss of use of both hands or both arms or both feet or both legs or both eyes or any two of them; or (2) a brain injury resulting from a single traumatic work-related injury that causes, exclusive of the contribution to the impairment rating arising from any other impairment to any other body part, or any preexisting impairments of any kind, a permanent impairment of thirty percent or more as determined by the current American medical association guide to the evaluation of permanent impairment. B. In considering a claim for total disability, a workers' compensation judge shall not receive or consider the testimony of a vocational rehabilitation provider offered for the purpose of determining the existence or extent of disability.