The Georgia Trial Lawyers Association and a law school professor have filed amicus briefs with the state's highest court, urging the justices to uphold an appellate panel decision which held that an injured worker could not be forced to authorize her doctor to communicate with her employer.Attorney Laura M. Shamp's brief, filed Friday on behalf of the Trial Lawyers Association, contends that an injured worker's limited waiver of her privacy rights "simply does not encompass a discussion wherein the employer's attorney is allowed to probe a doctor's thoughts, to create impre...
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