Johnson v. Coppage

Defendant employer filed a motion to require plaintiff, a workmen’s compensation claimant, to submit to a medical examination by a specified doctor. Plaintiff, who was being treated by a doctor of his choosing, agreed to the examination, but objected to the particular doctor on the basis that this was a “defendant’s doctor”. The trial court declined to order the examination, indicating it would appoint a doctor to perform the examination if the parties could not agree.

R.S. 23:1121 obliges an employee seeking compensation to submit himself to a reasonable medical examination by a doctor…