By William Powell of Powell & Denny | Published April 30, 2025 | Posted in Workers Compensation | Tagged Tags: can you refuse medical treatment in workers compensation, injured at work, workers comp |
Can You Refuse Medical Treatment in an Alabama Workers’ Compensation Case
Can You Refuse Medical Treatment in an Alabama Workers’ Compensation Case Much has been written about what happens when a workers’ compensation insurance carrier refuses to authorize medical treatment. Less often discussed is the opposite situation: What if your authorized treating physician recommends treatment that you do not want to undergo? Under Alabama workers’ compensation Read More
Read MoreInjured At Work as a Beverage Distributor
Injured At Work Beverage Distributor Injured at Work Beverage Distributor: If you work for a beverage distributor, such as Supreme Beverage, Crown Distributing, Buffalo Rock or Coca-Cola, where distribution and warehouse work requires a lot of lifting, chances are you have suffered a job injury, probably several times. Workers who provide for their families Read More
Read MoreAlabama Workers Compensation Questions: (13) What are TPD Benefits?
Alabama Workers Compensation Questions: (13) What are TPD Benefits? Temporary Partial Disability (TPD) Benefits is the name give to the workers’ compensation check an injured worker receives during the period of time they are unable to work full time (or earn the same wages that they did prior to their job injury) due to a Read More
Read MoreAlabama Workers Comp Questions: (12) What are TTD Benefits: Temporary total disability benefits?
Alabama Workers Comp Questions: (12) What are TTD Benefits: Temporary total disability benefits? Temporary total disability (TTD) benefits is the name given to the workers’ compensation check a worker who was injured at work receives during the period of time they are unable to work due to their job injuries. TTD benefits have three defining Read More
Read MoreAlabama Workers Compensation Questions: (10) What if I don’t like the company doctor I am being sent to for treatment?
Alabama Workers Compensation Questions: (10) What if I don’t like the company doctor I am being sent to for treatment? Under Alabama’s Workers’ Compensation law, a person injured at work is free to see whomever he or she wants for treatment of their job injury, but generally the workers’ compensation insurance carrier is not obligated Read More
Read MoreAlabama Worker Compensation Questions: (6) Preexisting condition
Alabama Worker Compensation Questions: (6) I was told that I was not entitled to workers comp benefits because of a preexisting condition: I could not count the number of times I have had a client come in who was injured at work, but was informed that workers’ comp was refusing to accept liability because 20 Read More
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