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WCAB Panel Says Unsigned UR Decisions Are Invalid

By Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)

Friday, April 18, 2014 | 14

By Sherri OkamotoLegal ReporterThe California applicants' attorneys say a Workers' Compensation Appeals Board panel decision issued last week gives them a new avenue to invalidate an adverse utilization-review decision. In Weilmann v. United Temporary Service, a board panel ruled that UR decisions issued by doctors who had not signed their decisions, and who had not seen the reports of the agreed medical evaluator, were invalid. Based on the WCAB's en banc decision last month in Dubon v. World Restoration, this means that the board will decide the medical necess...

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