Court Upholds Decision Rejecting Employer's Challenge to Worker's Medical Bills

The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that an employer was not entitled to a judgment in its favor on the reasonable and necessary nature of the medical fees that a worker incurred for a compensable back injury. Case: Reed & Damron Trucking Co. v. Barnett, No. 2017-CA-000996-WC, 08/17/2018, unpublished. Facts and procedural history: Rocky Barnett filed a workers’ compensation claim asserting that he had injured his back in April 2003 while working for the Reed & Damron Trucking Co. In 2006, an administrative law judge found Barnett’s injury was compensable and awarded perma...