Recently, a panel of commissioners with the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) addressed a medical treatment dispute where the question was what documentation had to be considered by the claims adjuster in reviewing a treatment request ( Ives v. DR...
Any information or opinions contained in this commentary are not necessarily endorsed by LexisNexis® or its affiliates or by the LexisNexis® editorial consultants who review panel decisions. There can be little question that there has been rampant abuse...
In a noteworthy panel decision issued August 21, 2014, the WCAB in Newton v. Jack-In-The-Box , 2014 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. LEXIS – , rescinded the WCJ’s award of medical treatment in the form of aquatic therapy after the defendant objected to the WCAB’s...
The UR process requires a good faith effort by both the treating physician and the UR physician to assure that the necessary and appropriate information is available In Smith v. Plant Construction , 2014 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. LEXIS –, the WCAB panel rescinded...