Louisiana Court of Appeal April 8, 2009, 44,211-WCA (Reed v. St. Francis Medical Center)

MOORE, J.

j,St. Francis Medical Center appeals a judgment finding that it failed to reasonably controvert its employee Marcella Reed’s request to change her treating orthopedic surgeon, and imposing a penalty of $2,000 and attorney fee of $5,000. The Workers’ Compensation Judge (“WCJ”) focused solely on the disparate accounts of Ms. Reed’s office visit of April 10, 2007, to Dr.