District Court of Appeal of Florida

For purposes of a worker's compensation claimant's procedural right to request a one-time "change of physician during the course of treatment," before requesting another authorized physician, a claimant must at least begin treatment with the physician the claimant seeks to change. In a workers' compensation case, denial of a claimant's petition for benefits (PFB) seeking treatment from a specified pain management physician is affirmed where the E/C had no duty to authorize another pain management physician because claimant had not received treatment from a physician timely authorized by the E/C.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/29/2006
• Published 01/02/2007

Judges

• HAWKES, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Joey D. Oquist, St. Petersburg, and Bill McCabe, Longwood, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jack A. Weiss, Fowler, White, Boggs, & Banker, P.A., St. Petersburg, for Appellees.