Long v. Roberts Dairy Co.

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• recognizing employee must show employer’s choice of treatment was unreasonable to establish claim for alternative care
• concluding the employee did not satisfy his burden to prove the employer-authorized care was unreasonable where the treating physician recommended several treatment options, the employer selected one of those options but the employee requested care under one of the 8 other options
• noting a claimant’s desire for alternate 9 medical treatment is not determinative of whether the treatment offered by the employer is inferior or less extensive than the claimant’s proposed treatment
• “Determining what care is reasonable under the statute is a question of fact.”
• “[T]he employer’s obligation under the statute turns on the question of reasonable necessity, not desirability.”
• “The ultimate question is whether . . . the employer met its obligation under Iowa Code section 85.27 . . . . By challenging the employer’s choice of treating—seeking alternate care—[the claimant] has assumed the burden of proving that the authorized care is unreasonable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).