Rutledge v. Resource Transportation

AMY, Judge.

| Jfhe workers’ compensation judge awarded penalties and attorney fees to the claimant for the employer’s failure to approve medical treatment and pay certain medical bills. The employer appeals, contending that the judge erred in assessing penalties and attorney fees and in failing to specify for which expenses and treatments the penalties and attorney fees were assessed. For the following reasons, we affirm.

Factual and Procedural Background

The record indicates that on July 8, 2004, the claimant, Dustin Rutledge, while in the course and scope of his employment with Resource…