Beets v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
1Dissent
*1077OPALA, J.,
with whom LAVENDER, J., joins dissenting to denial of rehearing.
¶ 1 The court rewards today an employer who belatedly tendered a facially deficient medical report by rejecting the claimant’s timely probative-value objection for the failure of that in-court challenge to meet a new standard of specificity — one tougher than that fashioned in Gaines.1 I cannot accede to today’s pronouncement. It will impose a significant burden without providing a correlative benefit to the judicial decision-making process. Today’s tougher standard sub silen-tio demands that one’s objection to a…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Hough v. LeonardSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1993
- McDonald, Adm'r v. StrawnSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1920
- Gaines v. Sun Refinery and MarketingSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1990
- Rush v. FrenchArizona Supreme Court · 1874
- LaBarge v. ZebcoSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1988
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