Supreme Court Denies Review of 2 Comp Cases

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday denied review of two workers’ compensation cases, including one involving an employer’s challenge to an administrative determination that its utilization reviewer had not timely responded to a request for authorization of treatment. A utilization reviewer gets five business days to respond to a request for authorization, and a workers’ compensation judge found that the day after Thanksgiving counts as a normal business day. Thus, the judge concluded that the utilization reviewer for the state Department of Corrections, Reh...