Popeye's Famous Fried Chicken v. Willis

Melvin Mayfield, Chief Judge.

This is an employer’s appeal from the Workers’ Compensation Commission and the question presented is whether the commission erred in authorizing a claimant to see another doctor at the employer’s expense.

It is agreed that the claimant sustained a compensable injury to an elbow in a fall which occurred on November 20, 1980. The employer sent her to a doctor who made x-rays, put her arm in a sling, prescribed “warm soaks, Naprosyn and Tylenol,” and released her to go back to work the next day. However, she continued to complain of pain and other symptoms associated…