R.R. Donnelly & Sons v. Barnett

CADY, Justice.

In this appeal from judicial review of a workers’ compensation decision dismissing an application for alternate medical care by an injured worker, we must consider an employer’s future responsibility for unauthorized medical care where the employer has acknowledged the compensability of a portion of the injury. The workers’ compensation commissioner dismissed the employee’s application for alternate medical care, but held that the employer could not assert lack of authorization as a defense to a future claim by the employee for payment of medical care not authorized. The…