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EX PARTE SOUTHEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER

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835 So.2d 1042 (2002)

Ex parte SOUTHEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER. (In re Jennifer Sorrells v. Houston County Health Care Authority d/b/a Southeast Alabama Medical Center).

Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama.

May 24, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sarah Carlisle Pflaum of Carr, Allison, Pugh, Howard, Oliver & Sisson, P.C., Birmingham, for petitioner.

Tracy W. Cary of Morris, Cary & Andrews, L.L.C., Dothan, for respondent.

Lawrence T. King of Goozee, King & Horsley, L.L.P., Birmingham, for amici curiae Ray Whitaker, Phillip Akins, and Goozee, King & Horsley, L.L.P., on behalf of the respondent.

MURDOCK, Judge.

This case concerns the refusal of an employer to preapprove a medical treatment for an injured employee covered under Alabama's Workers' Compensation Act, § 25-5-1 et seq., Ala.Code 1975 ("the Act"). Section 25-5-293(k), Ala.Code 1975, allows an employer to conduct "medical-necessity determinations," but only if it adopts and follows procedures for doing so that are consistent with state regulations contemplated by the Act. The employer in the...

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