By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau ChiefThe New York Workers' Compensation Alliance last week called for scrapping the state's five-month-old medical treatment guides, saying they violate a section of workers' compensation law guaranteeing that workers will get treatment for as long as necessary to relieve their injuries and illnesses.The Alliance, a group of claimants' lawyers and other workers' advocates, warned in a letter to State Workers' Compensation Board (SWCB) Chairman Robert Beloten last Tuesday that denials of treatments based on the new guidelines and a bac...
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