doctors for workers compensation

One question I get asked regularly by clients is “Can I change workers’ compensation doctors?”. It is surprising to many of my clients when they find out that they do not get to pick what doctor they get to see following their work accident. In Florida, the insurance company adjuster is the person that selects the doctor for an injured worker. Is there anything you can do if you do not like your doctor in your workers’ compensation case? Change Workers’ Compensation Doctors During the course of your treatment, you may decide that you want to change workers’ compensation doctors. You do have limited options that are spelled out in the Florida Workers’ Compensation Statutes. But, there are rules for taking advantage of this statute. The Rules in Florida The provision for changing workers compensation doctors is in Florida Statutes Section 440.13(2)(f). According to that statute, if you get hurt on the job you may request a change of doctors during the course of your treatment. But you ca...

 Article content TORONTO - Ontario’s health minister is asking the province’s doctors if binding arbitration is so important that they are willing to form a public-sector union and disclose their salaries. Article content The Ontario Medical Association has asked for it as a condition of returning to negotiations on a new fee agreement for doctors. Minister to Ontario Medical Association: If you want binding arbitration, do you want to be a union? Back to video Doctors voted down a tentative deal, which would have raised the physician services budget by 2.5 per cent a year, to $12.9 billion by 2020, following a concerted campaign from a group calling itself the Coalition of Ontario Doctors. One of the group’s concerns was that the deal didn’t include binding arbitration, with the government and OMA instead agreeing to allow a court challenge on it to continue. But with the OMA now saying it wants binding arbitration in place before talks resume, Health Minister Eric Hoskins has sen...

The father of the Italian woman ordered by British judges to give up her baby after a forced caesarean has backed the court’s decision to put the child up for adoption. Marino Pacchieri said his daughter Alessandra is a ‘threat’ to the baby because she experiences ‘manic, paranoid delusions’. He added that his daughter, who suffers from bipolar disorder, frequently defies doctors by refusing to take her medication. 'She's a threat': Marino Pacchieri has backed the court's decision to put his daughter's baby up for adoption ‘It may seem harsh,’ Mr Pacchieri said, ‘but I do not believe my daughter should be allowed to keep the baby.’ The child, now 15 months old and who cannot be named for legal reasons, is in care in the UK on the orders of a judge in the notoriously secretive Court of Protection. The case has sparked a wave of anger with MPs condemning the treatment of Alessandra, 35, as totalitarian. I could feel my baby kicking inside me. I was crying as I... ...

For a law firm in Great Falls, their specialty lies in dealing with workmen's compensation cases and they criticized a particular report that originated from the legislature's Audit Committee on the state Workmen's Compensation Division. On a yearly basis, the state agency spends millions of dollars to pay workers for job related illness and injury and this is why there is a document serving to contend the audit which focused too much on the unfavorable aspects of their operations. What this audit report contained are allegations of abuses by division officials, lawyers, and doctors in the handling of workmen's compensation cases. It is the author of a pamphlet which was submitted to the legislature's Select Committee on Workmen's Compensation which is also part of this firm as a lawyer. According to him and another lawyer, the report should have concentrated more on finding ways to help working men and women. The Workmen's Compensation audit is an intensive...

When you are injured at work and begin looking into how to recover for your medical treatment and other costs, you will probably come across a lot of different terms and a lot of different spellings. In particular, you'll probably see programs called "workers' compensation" or "workman's comp." Many people wonder if these are separate programs and if it is necessary to apply to both or whether one program will offer benefits that the other doesn't. The answer is "workers' compensation" and "workman's comp" are the exact same thing. Over the years "workers' compensation" has taken over as the more "official" title and "workman's comp" is viewed as the outdated and/or slang or shorthand. Workers' Compensation vs. Workman's Comp Workers' compensation actually exists in every state in the United States and on the website of the U.S. Department of Labor, which links to the depar...