Supreme Court of Oklahoma, 1998

Dobson v. Edwards

Supreme Court of Oklahoma · Decided June 1, 1998 · Hargrave, Hodges, Kauger, Lavender, Opala, Simms, Summers, Watt, Wilson

958 P.2d 168; 1998 OK 62; 1998 Okla. LEXIS 69; 1998 WL 375989 (Pacific Reporter, Second Series)

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Opinion of the Court

ORDER

KAUGER, Chief Justice.

Original jurisdiction is assumed. Let the writ prohibiting respondent judge, or any other assigned judge, from enforcing order filed April 15,, 1998 in Cause No. 98-1631K. The Workers’ Compensation Court is without authority to require that the claimant provide the employer and its workers’ compensation insurance carrier an unrestricted medical release. Nitzel v. Jackson, Okl., 879 P.2d 1222 (1994).

SUMMERS, V.C.J., and LAVENDER, SIMMS, HARGRAVE, OPALA, ALMA WILSON and WATT, JJ., concur. HODGES, J., dissents.

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