Shenandoah Products, Inc. v. Whitlock

Opinion

MOON, J.

Shenandoah Products, Inc. and its workers’ compensation insurance carrier, Old Republic Insurance Company (collectively, “the employer”), appeal the Workers’ Compensation Commission’s award of medical payments to Brenda Sue Whitlock (“claimant”). Shenandoah Products contends that: (1) the commission erred in its ruling that Dr. Kenneth J. Murray is an authorized treating physician as provided by the Workers’ Compensation Act; and (2) the commission erred in ruling that even if Dr. Murray is not an authorized treating physician, claimant may recover the expense of her surgery…