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        85A.21  CONTROVERSIAL MEDICAL QUESTIONS.
         Controversial medical questions may be referred by the workers'
      compensation commissioner to the physicians designated in section
      85A.20 for investigation and report to the workers' compensation
      commissioner when agreed to by the parties or on the commissioner's
      own motion.  No award shall be made in any case where controversial
      medical questions have been referred to the physicians until the
      physicians have duly investigated the case and made a report with
      respect to all such medical questions.  The date of disablement, if
      in dispute, shall be deemed a medical question.

Section History: Early Form

         [C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 85A.21]

Section History: Recent Form

         86 Acts, ch 1245, § 906; 98 Acts, ch 1061, §11

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        85A.21  CONTROVERSIAL MEDICAL QUESTIONS.
         Controversial medical questions may be referred by the workers'
      compensation commissioner to the physicians designated in section
      85A.20 for investigation and report to the workers' compensation
      commissioner when agreed to by the parties or on the commissioner's
      own motion.  No award shall be made in any case where controversial
      medical questions have been referred to the physicians until the
      physicians have duly investigated the case and made a report with
      respect to all such medical questions.  The date of disablement, if
      in dispute, shall be deemed a medical question.

Section History: Early Form

         [C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 85A.21]

Section History: Recent Form

         86 Acts, ch 1245, § 906; 98 Acts, ch 1061, §11

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        85A.21  CONTROVERSIAL MEDICAL QUESTIONS.
         Controversial medical questions may be referred by the workers'
      compensation commissioner to the physicians designated in section
      85A.20 for investigation and report to the workers' compensation
      commissioner when agreed to by the parties or on the commissioner's
      own motion.  No award shall be made in any case where controversial
      medical questions have been referred to the physicians until the
      physicians have duly investigated the case and made a report with
      respect to all such medical questions.  The date of disablement, if
      in dispute, shall be deemed a medical question.

Section History: Early Form

         [C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 85A.21]

Section History: Recent Form

         86 Acts, ch 1245, § 906; 98 Acts, ch 1061, §11