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If there is a question about causation of an accident, the emergency room report can be extremely important. The Hearing Commissioner in a Virginia Workers’ Compensation case will often look to the history contained in that first accident medical record to see if the record corroborates the claimant’s version of the accident. A  big problem […]

Most claimants do not understand the importance of the treating doctor when they are injured. The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission when all things are equal gives decisive weight to the opinion of the treating doctor. Usually, the treating doctor is the first doctor who treats the claimant. Of course, if the injury requires a specialist […]