As with an IME, the insurance carrier has a contractual right to request an Examination Under Oath (EUO). The carrier may request a EUO from the injured person or from a treating doctor’s medical office. And we see that commonly an insurer will request EUOs from both the injured person and the treading doctor’s office.
The EUO is a formal proceeding that typically takes place in a law office or the office of a court reporting agency. Unfortunately, a EUO is typically an adversarial proceeding where the insurer’s attorneys seek to uncover facts that would help them disqualify a claim, or perhaps to even disqualify all the claims of a healthcare provider based on a theory of fraudulent incorporation. We believe it’s important that you have competent EUO counsel to represent you during a EUO proceeding.