COMPENSATION COURT
Decision Reserved On Claim
An injured worker wishing to be treated at a private hospital required the approval of his insurance company, or if he was not insured, his employer. Judge Archer said in the Compensation Court yesterday. His Honour reserved his decision on a claim by Leslie Oswald Sevicke-Jones, an engineer (Mr B. A. Barrer), against his brother. Melville Francis Sevicke-Jones (Mr E. S. Bowie) for £5O in respect of medical services received at St. George’s Hospital.
The plaintiff claimed that after rupturing himself while lifting tractor mountings he developed a hernia. Unable to gain admission to the public hospital for treatment he had entered St. George’s Hospital on the advice of his doctor.
Workers’ compensation amounting to £139 8s lOd was paid by the defendant and the plaintiff was now claiming for surgeon’s and anaesthetist’s fees and other hospital charges.
Mr Bowie submitted that medical evidence and surgical attendance did not extend to nursing and other hospital services.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28699, 24 September 1958, Page 19
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