Can I File for an Expedited Hearing?
By Candace Talbot, Esq.
An Expedited Hearing with the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board is a special hearing designed to fast-track certain narrow issues in a workers’ compensation case by allowing the parties to go directly to trial on said narrow issue the day the hearing is set (versus waiting for a trial date which typically follows a Mandatory Settlement Conference.)
The issues typically need to be related to an accepted case and are restricted to issues involving:
1. Entitlement to medical treatment
2. If applicant is required to treat in the MPN
3. A medical treatment appointment or medical legal evaluation
4. Entitlement to temporary disability benefits
5. Entitlement to compensation when there is a dispute as to liability among carriers.
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