Breckenridge v. Marval Poultry Co., Inc.

In this workers’ compensation appeal, we must determine whether the evidence supports the Industrial Commission’s finding that a change of physicians by the claimant was unauthorized by the employer.

Leonarda Breckenridge, the claimant, sustained a compensable injury to her hand as a result of an industrial accident in June 1979. She was treated by a series of physicians, each of whom referred her to the next: Dr. Kidwell, Dr. Hess, Dr. Bell, and Dr. McCue. Dr. Frank C. McCue, an orthopedic surgeon practicing in Charlottesville, specialized in the treatment of injuries to the hand, but he also…