05/14/2010
determine a medicallegal evaluation won't be necessary because the AME won't be able to change anything anyway. My jaws are sore from the teeth grinding all night. I doubt that can be added as a '' compensable consequence".
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07/24/2010
the I & A officer is blowing smoke you cannot add body parts via an application five years past the F&A....absolutely a waste of time.
If there is a compensable consequence it is handled via the future medical process.
You go to the treater the treater decides whether or not it is
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09/22/2010
doctors wanting to do more testing The list goes on and on. Have there been any new med-legal exams Conclusions
Bottom line is there is no substitute for more facts. Depending on those facts the EE may have had a new injury possibly a compensable consequence may be possibly entitled to more TD
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06/05/2011
treatment that even mentions "radiating pain to left shoulder" and denies access to AME.
Now... there are numerous threads here relative to psych being a compensable injury secondary to chronic pain even though psych not accepted in the stipulations... and case law to support these opinions
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06/14/2011
arose from same date of injury i.e. a back injury resulting in a compensable consequence psychiatric injury If that is the case I would look at Example C of the 2005 PDRS at p. 7-3 Multiple impairments to different regions of body.
If injuries are from different dates then you have a u1tpfrbkw
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07/01/2012
Thank You for your responce. I did write a letter in July 21 2010 to my AA asking if we could add the heart as a compensable consequence injury He stated a Doctor would have to take a position on all the pain medications I have been on for the last ten years. Does the PTP written statement on a
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08/14/2012
. And the employer cannot recover or subrogate in the med mal action.
So the ultimate result is a compensable consequence of the 2002 injury without a question. The real issue would be has there been a settlement of that 2002 injury or an F&A and if so has there been a Petition to Reopen
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01/15/2013
an allegation of another body part compensable consequence then NOTHING is due period; and even then there are certainly basis to dispute a med-legal.
Again there is currently NOTHING to terminate but do a walk through on the Order Compelling and if "suspendingbarring" is struck
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07/03/2014
for me to fathom that is how it will play out. The behavioral disability from a stroke is not a compensable consequence of the physical injury it is a direct effect of the injury IMHO.
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09/26/2014
Well any evaluating Dr. can say anything heshe thinks is important. However that doesn't mean it's necessarily wise to do so. There is often a con
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