State Accident Insurance Fund Corp. v. Holston

SAIF appeals from a Workers’ Compensation Board order that awarded claimant reimbursement for travel expenses from his home in Springfield to Medford for treatment of a compensable injury. It contends that the Board erred in setting aside SAIF’s denial of the travel claim. We affirm.

Claimant sustained a compensable injury in 1979. During the course of his claim, he was seen by Dr. Bryson, a chiropractor, Drs. Stainsby and Zivin, neurologists, Drs. Robinson, Marxer, Degge and Nagel, orthopedic surgeons, Dr. Myers, a neurosurgeon, and Drs. Hoffmeister and Litchman, whose specialties are not…