Velez v. Industrial Commission

OPINION

CLABORNE, Judge.

This is a review of an industrial commission award that upheld a unilateral suspension of benefits and denied coverage for unauthorized medical treatment received after the suspension. The main issues are whether the suspension was void and whether medical treatment should have been covered even if unauthorized. We hold that the suspension here was voidable, as opposed to void, and that the award properly excluded coverage for unauthorized medical treatment.

On January 20, 1983, petitioner employee (“the employee”), a street maintenance worker for the self-insured…