SAIF Corp. v. Pepperling

SAIF seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board on reconsideration setting aside SAIF’s denial of claimant’s new or omitted medical condition claim for an infection of his finger diagnosed as methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). SAIF asserts that the claim should be analyzed as a consequential condition, to which the major contributing cause standard of proof applies, ORS 656.005(7)(a)(A), and contends that the board erred in applying the material contributing cause standard of proof and in determining that the condition is compensable. We conclude that the…