Claim of Coratti v. Jon Josef Hair & Colour Group

Mercure, J.P.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed February 9, 2004, which denied claimant’s motion to preclude the report of the workers’ compensation carrier’s consultant.

In accordance with the direction of the Workers’ Compensation Board, the employer’s workers’ compensation carrier submitted a consultant’s report addressed to the issue of causation of claimant’s asserted occupational illness. Although covered by a form that indicated it was a report of an independent medical examination (hereinafter IME), it is undisputed *769that the consultant did not conduct an…