If you don't cooperate with treatment you hurt your case
Insurance companies have to pay you for the time you are temporarily totally disabled from working and must pay for all reasonable and related medical bills. That said, you have to follow reasonable recommendations made by a doctor and can't do things that purposely hurt your claim.
Case in point, a friend of mine is representing someone who had a major injury and he is a nursing home for rehabilitation. They have a rule that there is no smoking in the nursing home (something about not wanting to blow people up who are on oxygen). The client didn't like that rule so he left even though he needs rehab and now his benefits have been cut off.
His lawyer can file a motion on his behalf, but you aren't going to impress the Judge if you are doing crazy things like that.
Listen to your doctors and be reasonable. It's as simple as that.
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