SAIF Corporation v. Miguez

This workers’ compensation case arises from the parties’ disagreement over the rating of claimant’s permanent partial disability (PPD), and it requires us to construe an administrative rule — OAR 436-035-0007(12) (2009) — that relates to the process by which such disability determinations are made. Claimant’s employer, Huntons Sure Crop Farm Service, and its insurer, SAIF Corporation, challenge an order in which the Workers’ Compensation Board applied the administrative rule and, in doing so, “increased claimant’s whole person impairment award for a right shoulder condition from 15 percent,…