Workers Comp

Are you being represented by a workers comp attorney. I cannot tell if you are, but you must have one. Employers love to tell you how you dont need one and just send you to their doctors who will lie and say that everybody is a faker and scammer.

First, when the QME writes you are Totally TEMPORARILY Disabled you are to receive TTD payments (what folks like to call Workman's Comp).

Or, when the QME writes you are Partially Permanently Disabled, you are to receive PPD (permanent disability) payments.

So, IN WRITING, demand the insurer pay you one of these for the time you "lost pay" because you were not permitted to work.

If you went to 3 different doctors on the Medical Provider Network, you can only request your own Qualified Medical Evaluator.

if you already objected to the treating doctor's opinion and you picked the QME that wrote about "the camel's back syndrome", the Labor Code does not give you any more doctors.

The only thing you might do is take that QME's deposition to challenge his decision about returning you to a job he know will seriously injure you.

If you never objected to the Treating Doctor's opinion, you only went to a QME because the Insurer ordered you to go, go back to the Treating Doctor for a re-evaluation and request the Treating Doctor review, comment upon and criticize the findings of the QME.