Key legal question
Whether the appointed MEDAS physicians had to be recused for prior involvement in an earlier private-insurance examination.
Extracted holding
The recusal request was unfounded; prior involvement did not objectively create an appearance of bias in the circumstances.
Extracted reasoning
The court treated the assignment as a follow-up or longitudinal expert report, not a true super-expertise. The same doctors could be used to assess developments over time, and mere prior participation in a related expert examination for a private insurer did not, by itself, disqualify them.