The defendant shall also be entitled to appropriately signed medical releases to allow gathering of pertinent medical records. The defendant may also require the applicant to submit to a medical examination by a physician of the defendant's choice. Failure of an applicant to comply with such requests may result in the dismissal of a claim or a delay in the scheduling of a hearing. I. Commission subpoena forms shall be used in all discovery proceedings and shall be signed, unless good cause is shown for a shorter period, at least one week prior to any scheduled hearing. All medical records shall be filed by the employer or its insurance carrier as a single joint exhibit at least one week before the scheduled hearing.
Exhibits are to be placed in an indexed binder arranged by care provider in chronological order.
Exhibits shall include all relevant treatment records which tend to prove or disprove a fact in issue. Pages shall be numbered consecutively. Hospital nurses' notes, duplicate materials, and other non-relevant materials may not be included. The Administrative Law Judge shall be notified one week in advance of any proceeding when it is anticipated that more than four witnesses will be called, or where it is anticipated that the hearing of the evidence will require more than two hours. Unless a request for review is properly filed, the Administrative Law Judge's Order is the final order of the Commission.