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Was Performing Arts Center Worker’s Cane Just a Prop?
Was Performing Arts Center Worker’s Cane Just a Prop?

Claimants may sometimes exaggerate their injuries during medical examinations. But as one case shows, surveillance videos–especially multiple videos taken prior to and after exams–rarely lie. A maintenance worker for a performing arts center hurt himself […]
Could an Anxious Nurse Skip Mental Health IME that Went from In-person to Telehealth?
Could an Anxious Nurse Skip Mental Health IME that Went from In-person to Telehealth?

What Do You Think? Vancouver, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) – An employee in Washington state may be able to justify her failure to attend an IME if she can show she had good cause for doing so. […]
Do You Know the Rule? Wash. IME Accompanying Person
Do You Know the Rule? Wash. IME Accompanying Person

Seattle, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Can a worker in the State of Washington bring someone with them to an independent medical examination? The answer is yes, and here are the rules for when a worker has […]
Case Lesson: When is a Denial Based on an IME in Oregon?
Case Lesson: When is a Denial Based on an IME in Oregon?

Salem, OR (WorkersCompensation.com) -- For readers fortunate enough to have access to Simply Research, a case popped up on that site last week that has important information on how IMEs work in Oregon. The case, […]
What Do You Think: Was Asking Transit Authority Worker to Travel from N.J. to Big Apple for IME Unreasonable?
What Do You Think: Was Asking Transit Authority Worker to Travel from N.J. to Big Apple for IME Unreasonable?

New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – There was some irony in a Transit Authority worker’s contention that traveling to Manhattan for an independent medical examination was too much to ask. Perhaps he might have considered an […]
Compliance Corner: What Ohio Disability Evaluators Perform
Compliance Corner: What Ohio Disability Evaluators Perform

Alliance, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Physicians providing workers' compensation related services under the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation's imprimatur must apply to perform evaluations. The bureau draws from a pool of contracted physicians providing one or […]
Determining Reasonable IME Fees in Iowa Requires Looking at Rates in Relevant Area
Determining Reasonable IME Fees in Iowa Requires Looking at Rates in Relevant Area

Des Moines, IA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- When it comes to money, what's reasonable in one place might be too expensive somewhere else. As the Iowa high court explained in Mid American Construction LLC v. Sandlin, No. […]
W. Va. Delivery Driver’s Bid for 2nd MRI Comes Up Short on Preexisting Injury, MMI Conclusions
W. Va. Delivery Driver’s Bid for 2nd MRI Comes Up Short on Preexisting Injury, MMI Conclusions

Charleston, WV (WorkersCompensation.com) -- What happens in West Virginia when a doctor thinks an injured worker needs a second MRI, but the claims administrator disagrees? If Stewart v. Wolseley Investments Inc., No. 22-0215 (W. Va. […]