Jensen Press v. Ale

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the “[m]edical management of the claimant is to be directed by the treating physician, not by an employer’s representative”
• holding that the treating physician is to manage any necessary referrals
• affirming a finding that the treating physician did not release the patient from care
• “A long-held principle of the ... Commission, founded on Code § 65.1-88 [now Code § 65.2-603], is that medical management of the claimant is to be directed by the treating physician, not by an employer’s representative.”
• “[N]either the employer nor its insurance carrier may limit the [authorized] treating physician in the medical specialist, or treating facilities to which the claimant may be referred for treatment.” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• decided under former Code § 65.1-88, predecessor to Code § 65.2-603

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).