An employer that refused to cover the cost of followup surgery for a woman previously injured on the job was found by the New York Supreme Court Third Department Appellate Division to have violated the state's workers' compensation law by withholding payment without cause.
"(T)he employer cited no conflicting medical opinion and merely asserted that her dislocations had causes other than her original injury," the court wrote in Stilwell v. Sodexho Marriott et al., No. 502530. Since the employer never showed that it obtained a medical opinion to back up its position, the ...
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