Tag: independent medical exam

• Workers' Compensation

  The Independent Medical Examination – Can It Be Used to Address Causation?

  • June 26, 2020
  • By Allen & Gooch

  Under the Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Act, both the employee and the employer have a right to choose their own physicians. While the employee has a right to an initial choice of treating physician, the employer has the right to choose its own physician in order to examine the employee and render a Second Medical Opinion […]

• Workers' Compensation

  Using Maximum Medical Improvement to Request Independent Medical Examinations

  • April 17, 2019
  • By Allen & Gooch
  

  Doctors generally use the term “maximum medical improvement” or “MMI” to signify that a patient is as well as he/she will get with the aid of conventional medicine and treatment. Under General Maritime Law, a Jones Act seaman is guaranteed certain benefits until a physician determines that he/she has reached maximum medical improvement. However, maximum […]