Supreme Court Denies Review of MPN Notice Dispute

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday summarily denied review of a dispute over whether a self-insured employer's failure to give an injured worker notice of her rights under its medical provider network was effectively a denial of care, when the worker had, in fact, received treatment under the MPN for more than a year before abandoning it. A workers' compensation judge had ruled that the claims administrator's failure to provide an adequate MPN notice resulted in a denial of care to Esther Agumaniz-Robledo, and this decision remained undisturbed by the Workers' Compe...