Blackwell v. Citizens Insurance Co. of America

This case presents the issue whether a worker’s compensation carrier has duties to an injured claimant to conform the claimant’s treatment to the recommendations of a physician to whom the carrier refers the claimant and to explain such physician’s diagnosis and recommended treatment to the claimant. We hold that, as a matter of law, a worker’s compensation carrier owes no such duties to a claimant. We also hold that plaintiff failed to state a claim that defendant voluntarily undertook such duties here. Therefore, we affirm the decision of the Court of Appeals, which reversed the trial…