What is the scope of an employer's duty to provide medical treatment to an injured employee?

California, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Edgar v. W.C.A.B., 65 Cal.App.4th 1, 76 Cal.Rptr.2d 83 (Cal. App. 1998):

An employer must provide an industrially injured employee with any "[m]edical, surgical, chiropractic, and hospital treatment ... that is reasonably required to cure or relieve from the effects of the injury...." ( 4600.) Medical treatment and disability indemnity are separate and distinct elements of compensation. (Nickelsberg v. Workers' Comp. Appeals Bd. (1991) 54 Cal.3d 288, 294, 285 Cal.Rptr. 86, 814 P.2d 1328.)

A. Disability indemnity

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