⚠️ Idaho Workers’ Comp Alert: The Truth About “Independent” Medical Exams (IMEs)

If you’ve been injured on the job in Idaho, be cautious when an insurance company schedules an “Independent” Medical Exam (IME). Despite the name, these exams are rarely neutral. Often, they are used as a tool to justify reducing or cutting off your hard-earned benefits.

Idaho Insurance Medical Examination - IME

🩺 What You Need to Know About IMEs:

Doctor Selection: Insurance companies often hand-pick doctors who frequently side with the insurer.

The Objective: These reports are often used to minimize the extent of your injuries or claim you have reached “Maximum Medical Improvement” (MMI) prematurely.

The Risk: A single biased report can jeopardize your medical care, wage loss checks, and disability benefits.

⚖️ Why Goicoechea Law, LLC is Different We don’t just react to insurance tactics; we challenge work comp insurance companies.

How We Protect You:
✅ Aggressive Advocacy: We challenge biased IME results and ensure your voice is heard.
✅ Precedent-Setting Experience: We know the law because we help shape it at the Industrial Commission and Supreme Court level.
✅ No Upfront Fees: We work on a contingency basis—you don’t pay unless we win your case.

📞 Facing an IME in Idaho? Don’t go alone. Contact Goicoechea Law, LLC today for a FREE case review.

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Lewiston Idaho Work Injury – Independent Medical Examination?

If you’ve been hurt at work in Idaho, the work comp insurance company may schedule you for an “independent medical evaluation” or IME.

There is nothing independent about the medical evaluation. It is more of an insurance medical evaluation. The doctor will be hand-picked by the insurance company.

If your Idaho workers compensation insurance adjuster schedules you for an “insurance medical evaluation,” then your compensation and medical benefits may be terminated.

Insurance company doctors often focus on pre-existing conditions, prior injuries, or say that injuries you feel were caused by your Idaho work unjury are unrelated to the Idaho work accident.

Our attorneys are familiar with most of the doctors in Idaho hired by workers compensation insurance carriers. If you have lost your Idaho workers compensation benefits because of an insurance medical evaluation, or if you have been scheduled for an insurance medical evaluation, contact an experienced Idaho workers compensation attorney to help protect your rights.

Our lawyers offer a FREE case review. Call 208-743-2313 now or submit information below.

Representing injured Idaho workers in North Idaho in communities like Lewiston, Moscow, Coeur d’Alene, Post falls, Sandpoint, Bonners Ferry, Rathdrum, Kellogg, Deary, Juliaetta, Orofino, Kamiah, Grangeville, Cottonwood, and everywhere in between.

We handle claims against all Idaho work injury insurance companies: Idaho State Insurance Fund; Work Comp Exchange; Associated Loggers Exchange; Intermountain Claims; Gallagher Bassett; and more.