Workers' Compensation
Listed below is McConnaughhay, Coonrod, Pope, Weaver & Stern, P.A.'s workers' compensation case law database. The database dates back until 1971 and includes over 5500 workers' compensation court decisions.
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Green v. Chromalloy-Turbocumbustor
540 So.2d 874, 14 Fla. L. Week. 597, (Fla.App. 1 Dist., Mar 07, 1989)
Prior authorization for medical care is not a prerequisite to employer/carrier responsibility for emergency medical care. When the purpose of diagnostic testing is to determine the cause of a claimant's symptoms which symptoms may be related to a compensable accident the cost of diagnostic testing is compensable. Medical care is also compensable if an authorized physician refers the claimant to another doctor if that referral was made in the exercise of the treating physician's own judgment and not just at the request of the claimant. This implied authorization which results from the referral of the authorized treating physician to another doctor extends only to an evaluation and does not encompass treatment.
