Permanent Restrictions for Tenness WC

Myquestion

An employee has an injury. Employee goes to the doctor and gets an impairment rating and PERMANENT RESTRICTIONS.

The claim is settled based upon the impairment rating and the fact that the employee has PERMANENT RESTRICTIONS.

The employee gets the settlement award. Employee goes back to the doctor that gave the restrictions and tells doctor that the restrictions are no longer needed. Doctor lifts the restrictions (which were once PERMANENT).

Has anyone ever gone back to court to challenge the settlement based upon the lifting of the PERMANENT RESTRICTIONS?

Has anyone ever challenged the doctor as to lifting the PERMANENT RESTRCITIONS?

Has anyone ever continued to follow the PERMANENT RESTRICTIONS after the doctor lift them?

SMace

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>Has anyone ever gone back to court to challenge
>the settlement based upon the lifting of the
>PERMANENT RESTRICTIONS?

If I did I would contact my WC carrier.
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>Has anyone ever challenged the doctor as to
>lifting the PERMANENT RESTRCITIONS?

We've sent ee's to a physician for a second opinion. I would think the WC carrier would have made sure they were permanent restrictions before they settled.
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>Has anyone ever continued to follow the
>PERMANENT RESTRICTIONS after the doctor lift
>them?

No. I think I understand why you would want to do that. Is it because you have a new job for him and if restrictions are lifted he'll want his old one back? If this is the case I wouldn't use that angle. I would tell him that if there are any future openings he can bid for the job. I would not move someone out of a job because his restrictions are lifted.

If this happened to me, I would be thinking very hard about filing a complaint to the state medical board regarding that quack physician.
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