Winter Livestock v. Kroll

Winter Livestock v. Kroll
1996 OK 31
914 P.2d 660
Case Number: 86399
Decided: 03/04/1996
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

WINTER LIVESTOCK and State Insurance Fund, Petitioners,
v.
Ray KROLL and the Workers' Compensation Court, Respondents.

Appeal from Workers' Compensation Court.

[914 P.2d 661]

CORRECTED ORDER

¶1 Respondent's motion to dismiss is denied and this review proceeding may go forward. An order directing the employer or his insurance carrier to pay all reasonable and necessary medical expenses is reviewable because medical treatment is an allowance in the nature of compensation. Williams v. Central Dairy Products Company, 206 Okl. 266, 236 P.2d 984 (1951), Bill Hodges Truck Co. v. Gillum, 774 P.2d 1063 (Okl. 1989). A reviewable order of the Workers' Compensation Court is one which either grants or denies an award of compensation or otherwise constitutes a final determination of the rights between the parties. Toney v. Parker Drilling Co., 640 P.2d 1356 (Okl. 1982).

¶2 ALMA WILSON, C.J., KAUGER, V.C.J., and LAVENDER, HARGRAVE, OPALA and WATT, JJ., concur.