Calvin Arrant v. Wayne Acree Pls, Inc. & Louisiana Workers' Compensation Corporation

*418KNOLL, J.

11 This writ concerns whether a statutory prescriptive period can be shortened by an administrative rule. This issue arises in a workers’ compensation case where the hearing officer refused to consider the worker’s request to have medically recommended magnetic' resonance imaging (“MRI”) of his lumbar spine because the worker failed to appeal the Office of Workers’ Compensation Administration medical director’s decision denying his request for medical treatment within th.e 15-day time period required by an administrative rule.1 In so doing, the hearing officer sustained defendants’…