Helen Binger v. Integrated Office Systems

Medical Treatment—Utilization Review—Time to Issue Denial—WCAB upheld WCJ's finding that, for purposes of determining whether defendant timely served utilization review denial of treating physician's treatment recommendations pertaining to applicant/sales manager with 11/5/99 industrial injuries to back, neck, both upper extremities, both lower extremities, shoulders and psyche, treatment request mailed on a Thursday and received by defendant's mail processing facility on a Saturday was deemed to have been "received" by defendant within meaning of Labor Code § 4610(g)(1) on next business day, which was the following Tuesday as Monday was a holiday, so as to make utilization review denial served by defendant five days later timely.  © Copyright 2009 LexisNexis.

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