They must of sent your xray into a specialist
Go to another doctor for a second opinion.
My doctor is a ortho ups sent me to and he saying surgery. Liberty mutual doctor that is in another city reviewed it and said no.
Of course he did! Can you go to your own orthopedic surgeon? I believe you can. Unless they changed it. I had shoulder surgery and UPS had to pay who I wanted. All WComp.
Liberty sucks. Get a lawyer too. They have to pay for the scar too! So much an inch.
In my state I don’t believe so. They gave me an option of 3 orthopedics to choose from
You got one more. Talk to a comp lawyer, union may be helpful there. If they still won’t let you get the surgery they may be right, but I would still demand physical therapy at the least. Your gonna have to take time off for that but if it’s comp you’ll get a check. If you go back to work and it still bothers you, come in one night and tell whoever is covering that your elbow is killing you and your going to an ER. The Doc there will X-ray it again prescribe rest and meds, more time off. This will get old real quick to them and if you genuinely need the surgery they’ll be more than willing to let you have it. It’s a game, but if you work with a screwed up elbow it could get much worse for you.
Definitely
Liberty mutual is terrible
That’s what my next question was going to be is if I get released and it hurts do I go back out again or would they say since they denied it it can’t be a workmans comp injury anymore
No your on record as soon as you went to their Dr. If it happened on the job it’s comp. Even if you had a problem years ago with that elbow, and you had no problem all this time, the job made it come back, comp. GET A LAWYER! Do not trust liberty mutual! UPS is self insured, Liberty manages the money so they’re like the gate keeper to the funds. They initially tried to deny my shoulder because I had dislocated it 17 years earlier before UPS. Law is they hire you as you are, anything the job makes worse is on them. It cost them plenty, I was out almost a year!
Better call Saul
Work comp varies greatly by state
