Burbank Approves Work Comp ADR With Firefighters

City officials in Burbank approved an alternative dispute resolution process with firefighters intended to expedite resolution of medical disagreements. A staff report that the city’s Management Services Department drafted for Tuesday's City Council meeting says the ADR aims to eliminate delays resulting from the agreed medical evaluator and qualified medical evaluator process. The department said its review of claims over the past three years found that it took between two and three months on average to select an independent doctor to address issues such as causation, the nat...