Alabama Workers' Comp Blawg

  • 20
  • Jan
  • 2020

Alabama Employee Gets a Second Opinion Doctor Despite Previously Exhausting her Panel of Four

  On January 17, 2020, the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals released its opinion in the matter styled Ex parte Kohler Company, Inc.  In Kohler, the Court considered a Petition f…

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  • 06
  • Dec
  • 2019

Alabama Court of Appeals Upholds Trial Court’s Order Requiring Employer to Provide a Second Panel of Four Pain Management Doctors or Negotiate the Closure of Medical Benefits

  On December 6, 2019, the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals released its opinion in Colby Furniture Company v. Belinda Overton.  In Overton, the employer sought the termination …

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  • 09
  • Mar
  • 2010

SEPARATION OF PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON

Ex parte Nicholas Kish: On March 5, 2010, the Court of Civil Appeals granted a Writ of Mandamus ordering the Trial Court to grant the employees Motion to Compel a panel of four su…

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