All required filings pertaining to any case shall be sent to the Court Administrator of the Workers' Compensation Court, 1915 North Stiles, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105. After the claim has been assigned, correspondence may be addressed to the assigned trial judge. All correspondence related to a settlement conference shall be addressed to the assigned settlement conference judge.

Parties, counsel, mediators, case managers, vocational rehabilitation evaluators and medical providers shall have no ex parte communications with the assigned trial judge regarding the merits of a specific matter pending before the assigned judge of the Workers' Compensation Court. Parties and counsel shall have no ex parte communications with a court-appointed independent medical examiner, vocational rehabilitation evaluator or case manager regarding the merits of a specific case pending before the assigned judge, except as necessary for purposes of the examination or evaluation, and as otherwise ordered by the Court. Nothing herein shall prohibit an insurer, own risk employer, or the attorney for same, from contacting a court-appointed independent medical examiner or court-appointed case manager for the limited purpose of authorizing diagnostic testing, treatment, and/or surgery. Nor shall it prohibit communications between a court-appointed case manager and an adjuster, attorney or party concerning light duty issues consistent with physician restrictions. Notice of such contact shall be communicated in writing to the Court and all parties.

Adopted by order of the Supreme Court, 1997 OK 130 , eff. April 15, 2000; Amended by order of the Supreme Court, 2002 OK 6, eff. March 1, 2002.