Workers' compensation: medical treatment: predesignation of physician.

Existing workers' compensation law generally requires employers to secure the payment of workers' compensation, including medical treatment, for injuries incurred by their employees that arise out of, or in the course of, employment. Existing law, until December 31, 2009, provides an employee with the right to be treated by his or her personal physician from the date of injury if specified requirements are met, including a requirement that the physician agrees to be predesignated. This bill would delete the December 31, 2009, repeal date for those provisions pertaining to an employee's predesignation of a personal physician.