Counts v. International Paper Co.

Claimant seeks judicial review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board denying the compensability of diagnostic medical services for a noncompensable condition. We review for errors of law, ORS 656.298(6), ORS 183.482(8), and affirm.

Self-insured employer accepted a claim for a “left chest wall soft tissue injury” for an injury that claimant sustained on the job. A month later, claimant checked into a hospital to have a series of diagnostic tests done to determine whether the chest pain that he was then suffering was caused by coronary heart disease or a myocardial infarction. Employer…