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PATIENT ADVOCATES WHO ACCOMPANY THE CLIENTS OF PERSONAL INJURY LAW FIRMS TO INDEPENDENT MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS ARE EMPLOYEES ENTITLED TO UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BENEFITS (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department determined claimants were employees of IME, which paid claimants (patient advocates) to accompany clients of personal injury law firms during independent medical examinations. Therefore claimants were entitled to unemployment insurance benefits:

IME advertised for patient advocates, who were required to submit resumÉs and to be interviewed. IME then imposed very specific requirements governing nearly every aspect of the work of the patient advocates that it hired. An official handbook set forth detailed instructions specifying the procedures that advocates were expected to follow during patient examinations, including instructions to immediately call the IME office upon arrival or if the examining physician required intake paperwork. The handbook also contained a script that advocates were expected to read to physicians at the beginning of every examination and specified the precise content of the reports that were required to be prepared. IME exercised control over work assignments by determining which patient advocates would be offered the opportunity to attend any particular examination, by assigning specific patient advocates in response to customer requests and by arranging for replacements when a patient advocate was unable to report to an assigned examination. IME staff reviewed all reports that were submitted. In response to complaints that it had received from customers, IME sent a memorandum to patient advocates describing common errors and admonishing them to follow the prescribed protocol and thereafter conducted a mandatory meeting regarding the required content and format of the reports. Matter of Bloomfield (IME Watchdog, Inc.), 2019 NY Slip Op 06556, Third Dept 9-12-19

 

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