The Freibott Law Firm was recently successful in obtaining an award from the Industrial Accident Board wherein the Board ordered the worker’s compensation insurance company to pay for ongoing psychiatric treatment of the Claimant. The Claimant was stabbed in the chest and the victim of a robbery while making a pizza delivery. The Claimant was originally injured on September 17, 2006 while he was working for Pizza Properties of Delaware (Domino’s). The worker’s compensation insurance company denied paying for the Claimant’s psychiatric treatment as it was the company’s position that the treatment was not reasonable, necessary, or causally related to the original work accident. Based upon the testimony of the Claimant’s treating psychiatrist, and based upon the testimony of the Claimant, the Industrial Accident Board found both the Claimant and the psychiatrist credible, and that the treatment rendered by the psychiatrist in the past, and the treatment that is needed in the future, was, in fact, reasonable, necessary, and related to the original work accident. The Board ordered the worker’s compensation insurance company to pay for all past psychiatric treatment and future psychiatric treatment. The Board also ordered the worker’s compensation insurance company to pay the Claimant’s attorney’s fee and the expert testimony of the Claimant’s psychiatrist. (Kutney v. Pizza Properties of Delaware, IAB Hearing No. 1322543)
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