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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. […]
Quick Hit: Telemedicine for Wash. IMEs
Quick Hit: Telemedicine for Wash. IMEs

Spokane, WA (WorkersCompensation.com) -- Telemedicine has been around for years, and in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, it became a part of the "new normal." To clarify when telemedicine is an acceptable way to […]
Walmart Night-stocker Can’t Show Chest Pain Came from Moving 2,000-lb Pallet
Walmart Night-stocker Can’t Show Chest Pain Came from Moving 2,000-lb Pallet

Chandler, AZ (WorkersCompensation.com) – Employers should put forth solid medical evidence and their best arguments supporting that evidence during a workers’ compensation hearing. As a case involving a Walmart night stocker shows, if there are […]
Iowa Workers’ Compensation Symposium Explores IME Reimbursement and Causation Challenges (Part 3 of 4)
Iowa Workers’ Compensation Symposium Explores IME Reimbursement and Causation Challenges (Part 3 of 4)

Pro Rata Reimbursement, Hearing Report Requirements, and Causation Issues in Workers' Compensation Cases Des Moines, IA - The 61st Annual Iowa Workers' Compensation Symposium continued its informative sessions on agency case law updates. During this […]
IME Status Renders N.Y. Doctor’s Testimony, Reports Inadmissible
IME Status Renders N.Y. Doctor’s Testimony, Reports Inadmissible

New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- How much does medical treatment have to look like an independent medical examination to officially count as an IME? In Feldman v. New York City Transit Authority, 2023 WL 3099529 […]