Mazanec v. Aetna Insurance Co.

OPINION

DYER, Chief Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case presenting first the issue of the correctness *617of the holding of the trial judge that the action of Fred Mazanec in refusing to submit to surgery offered by the insurance carrier of the employer was reasonable, and such refusal would not suspend the workmen’s compensation benefits due employee.

T.C.A. § 50-1004 reads in pertinent part as follows:

If the injured employee refuses to comply with any reasonable request for examination or to accept the medical or specialized medical services which the employer is required to furnish…