Willitzer v. McCloud

Stripping absolute immunity from civil suit for an independent physician examining workers’ compensation claimants for the purpose of reporting their medical conditions is a just •result. It is long overdue, supported by a thorough analysis of the facts and existing law on immunity, and leaves undisturbed judicial immunity as well as those immunities related to testimony at adjudicatory proceedings and involving quasi-judicial officers.

This decision is generated by a festering evil at the Industrial Commission, where a small minority of physicians, to whom the commission refers claimants for…