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EX PARTE SMITHERMAN BROS. TRUCKING, INC.

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751 So.2d 1232 (1999)

Ex parte SMITHERMAN BROTHERS TRUCKING, INC. (In re William Harris v. Smitherman Brothers Trucking, Inc.).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

November 24, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett L. Pugh, Joseph H. Driver, and W. Bradford Kittrell of Carr, Allison, Pugh, Howard, Oliver & Sisson, P.C., Birmingham, for petitioner.

William P. Roberts II and George H. Howell of Howell, Sarto & Howell, Prattville, for respondent.

HOUSTON, Justice.

Smitherman Brothers Trucking, Inc. ("Smitherman"), petitions for a writ of mandamus directing the trial court to vacate its April 9, 1999, order prohibiting Smitherman, through its medical case manager, from engaging in "any ex parte [oral] communication with any medical provider" for William Harris. Harris, one of Smitherman's employees, was injured on the job and has a workers' compensation claim pending. We grant the petition.

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