Crawford v. SAIF Corp.

Claimant seeks judicial review of the Workers’ Compensation Board’s denial of his request for attorney fees under ORS 656.386(l)(b)(B) after he prevailed in overcoming a denied claim for an omitted medical condition. SAIF responds that claimant did not meet the statutory requirements under which a prevailing party can obtain attorney fees and, in a cross-assignment of error, asserts that claimant should not have prevailed in the underlying claim and is not entitled to attorney fees on that ground as well. We conclude that the board correctly determined that SAIF had erroneously denied the…