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Your rights to prompt
and necessary
Medical Treatment
Oklahoma Workers' Compensation
laws clearly require an employer to provide an employee who is injured at work
with all reasonable and necessary medical treatment.
Employers must provide medical treatment for
accidental injury
or resulting from
occupational disease.
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Unless
notice
is given to the employer or
medical treatment is rendered within thirty (30) days of injury, any claim for compensation may be forever barred.
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An employer MUST provide workers injured in the scope of employment with
prompt medical treatment with very few exceptions.
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An employer MUST
provide an injured worker the forms to file a claim.
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If a
CLAIM
is not filed within 2 years
of certain limits, known as filing a Form 3, that Claim may be forever
barred. Receiving medical and/or temporary financial benefits does not
mean you have a claim.
Choice of treating physician
Recent
Workers' Compensation changes designed to assist the system gives an
employer the right to choose your treating physician.
There is the
possibility of changing that doctor.
Commentary/Editorial
Ponder these facts.
Almost all employers purchase insurance to cover workers' compensation
claims. This means that the insurance adjuster has significant influence
in a claim.
Insurance
companies are in business to make profit.
Ask yourself
these two questions to see what you think an insurance company would
willingly do for you:
If the goal is to make
profit, is there an incentive not to authorize the most appropriate
medical care?
Given
this, do you trust the insurance company?
Commentary by Managing Attorney, Steve Mortimer
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