Beverly Hills Multispecialty Group

Doctors who treat injured workers have won an important legal victory--while employers and insurers were dealt a potentially costly setback--by the California Supreme Court's refusal to reconsider an appellate court ruling benefiting a controversial Beverly Hills medical practice. The decision left standing by the high court deals with technical but possibly far-reaching issues in workers' compensation trials.

Doctors who treat injured workers have won an important legal victory--while employers and insurers were dealt a potentially costly setback--by the California Supreme Court's refusal to reconsider an appellate court ruling benefiting a controversial Beverly Hills medical practice. The decision left standing by the high court deals with technical but possibly far-reaching issues in workers' compensation trials.

In a legal victory for doctors who treat injured workers, a California appeals court has ruled that a Beverly Hills medical group was unfairly denied due process when its medical bills were branded fraudulent and disallowed by a workers' compensation judge. Observers said the ruling, if it withstands a likely appeal, will strengthen the hand of doctors in some of their legal skirmishes with workers' comp insurance companies.