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PART V COMPENSATION AND RIGHT OF ACTION — Earning capacity reviewed

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Where the commission is satisfied that the average earnings of the worker at the time of the worker's injury do not represent the worker's earning capacity because of either of the following:

86(a)

the worker's age; or

86(b)

t he worker is in the course of learning a trade, occupation, or profession the commission may, in the case of a temporary disability, adjust the amount of compensation and, in the case of a permanent disability, calculate the payment, by taking into account the probable increase in average earnings.

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