An employer can't cite failure to make "appropriate progress" in requesting an injured worker change providers after reaching maximum medical improvement, the Florida 1st District Court of Appeals ruled.The claimant attorney in the case said the decision allowing his client to continue treating with doctors she knew and trusted "really doesn't change anything" for injured workers. Fellow claimant attorney David Wiitala disagreed, saying the decision could benefit their side of the bar because it provides "a limitation on the unilateral right of the employer/carrier to change treating p...
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