Appeals Commission Orders ExamWorks to Comply With Subpoena

The Michigan Workers’ Disability Compensation Appeals Commission overturned a magistrate and ordered ExamWorks to comply with a subpoena that it said the company failed to properly challenge. The commission said the only acceptable interpretation of Rule 1306(6), which states that disputes over a subpoena “shall be brought by motion,” is that a party is required to file a motion challenging the request for information. “This is what our case law has rather consistently required and it is what the word ‘shall’ means,” the commission said. “The e...