Medical Benefits Being Denied to Injured Workers!
A disturbing trend in workers' compensation litigation is the defense of "major contributing cause." This means that if the need for medical care is not 51% or greater due to the workers' compensation injury, medical care will be shut down!
Randy Zeldin, a workers' compensation attorney in Boca Raton, has been litigating many more cases with this defense asserted. Recently, a laborer with a documented herniated cervical disc, was denied permission for surgery, because an "independent" orthopedist chosen by the carrier, found that the injury was mostly degenerative.
One recent case in Jacksonville, Elma Tunovic v. Dillards, Inc., also supports this trend. Randy Zeldin, workers' compensation attorney from Ft. Lauderdale to West Palm Beach, continues to represent injured workers' denied medical care.
