LC 4628 requires the physician who signs a med-legal report to take the history, review the medical records, compose/draft the conclusions and disclose any other participants or else the report is?

• A. Admissible
• B. Inadmissible
• C. Privileged
• D. Confidential

Answer: (B)

In California workers’ compensation practice, a medical-legal report must be prepared with a complete, transparent basis. The physician who signs the report is required to personally take the history, review the medical records, draft the conclusions, and disclose any other participants who contributed to the evaluation. If these obligations aren’t met, the report cannot be admitted as evidence in the proceeding—it is inadmissible. This rule ensures the report has a reliable factual foundation and clear disclosure of all contributors, preventing hidden biases or undisclosed inputs from influencing the outcome. The other options don’t fit because the issue at hand is the admissibility of an incompletely prepared or undisclosed med-legal report, which the statute assigns as inadmissible rather than admissible, privileged, or confidential.