FOREST PRODUCTS, DIV. OF LUDLOW CORP v. Collins

OPINION

BROCK, Justice.

This is an action to recover benefits under the Workmen’s Compensation Laws. The parties will be referred to as they appeared below. The trial court awarded benefits for 16 weeks of temporary total disability, compensation for 25 percent permanent partial disability of the body as a whole, and recovery of medical expenses incurred in treatment of the injury. The employer has appealed and contends (1) that it is not liable for the medical expenses because the plaintiff sought treatment by physicians of her own choosing rather than by the “company physicians”; (2) that it…