The Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Commission was right to dismiss an attorney’s “overly burdensome and unduly broad” subpoena against an employer's medical examiner, but should not have imposed a $5,000 penalty against the attorney or made him pay the medical examiner’s attorney’s fees, the Mississippi Court of Appeals decided Tuesday.
The decision in Wright v. Turan-Foley Motors cautioned attorneys against being overzealous in their attempts to prove an employer-chosen medical examiner is biased against their client. But it upheld attorney...
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