IME Process Prone to Pitfalls, Attorney Says

Workers’ compensation claims managers are increasingly turning to independent medical evaluations to resolve issues pertaining to a claim without the expense of hiring a lawyer, a defense attorney said on Monday. But the strategy can backfire if claims adjusters and the companies providing IME services don’t watch what they’re saying in their correspondence, Chicago-based defense attorney Eugene Keefe said in a newsletter on Monday. “Both myself and my law partners have seen various claims where the non-lawyer WC IME background letter has ‘cooked the claim,&...