[DOWNLOAD] "City Auburn v. Roger Brown" by Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: City Auburn v. Roger Brown
- Author : Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama
- Release Date : January 24, 1993
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
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ROBERTSON, Presiding Judge On April 23, 1992, the City of Auburn (employer) filed a complaint against Roger Brown for the
determination of a disputed workmen's compensation claim. Brown answered and counterclaimed against the employer for workmen's
compensation benefits owed to him. The depositions of Brown, his treating physician, and the two other physicians who had examined him were taken. The record
reflects that on September 17, 1991, Brown injured his back while working as chief of the city tree service crew. Brown sought
and received medical treatment at Auburn Family Care until December 5, 1991. He was then referred to Dr. J. Kenyon Rainer,
an Opelika neurosurgeon, because of continued back problems. Dr. Rainer diagnosed Brown as having disc herniations at the
L4-5 and L5-S1 areas of his lumbar spine and concluded that he needed surgery to correct the problem. The employer, however,
did not approve the surgery for Brown. Instead, it asked Brown to get a second opinion from Dr. Charles Clark, a neurosurgeon
in Birmingham. Dr. Clark determined that Brown had strained his lumbar spine, and his recommendation was physical therapy,
instead of surgery, to treat the injury.