The court found Amazon sought a zero-percent impairment rating under the guise of care
An injured Amazon warehouse worker who spent 14 months without income got half of what he asked for in Tennessee.
The worker hurt his lower back lifting heavy items on April 24, 2024. He described a fast-paced environment and said he could do the job fine before the injury. A treating physician diagnosed back pain with left-sided radiculopathy and a lumbosacral strain, then - at the worker’s own request - placed him at maximum medical improvement on April 10, 2025, releasing him without restrictions.
Amazon stopped paying temporary disability benefits four days later.
But the pain did not stop. Over the following months, the worker cycled through medical providers. A panel physician diagnosed sacroiliac joint pain and assigned work restrictions Amazon did not accommodate. Amazon then gave him a panel of pain management specialists. A nurse practitioner recommended an injection he declined - previous ones had not helped. When he returned months later and saw a different provider, an MRI was ordered. No follow-up was set to review the results.
What caught the court’s attention was what Amazon was doing behind the scenes. Its claims adjuster stated the company had “sent Mr. Brar to a new physician to investigate preexisting injuries, impairment rating, and surgical candidacy.” Amazon also sent the MRI-ordering provider a causation letter - attaching a 2022 medical record from a different...
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