The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that a division-sponsored independent medical examination physician’s opinions on maximum medical improvement and impairment must be treated as presumptively correct, but his opinion on causation does not receive the same level of deference.
Case: Yeutter v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office, No. 18CA0498, 04/11/2019, published.
Facts: Joseph Yeutter worked as a controls engineer for CBW Automation Inc. He suffered serious head injuries at work in August 2012 when he was struck by a robotic arm.
Yeutter returned to work after two weeks but resigned tw...
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