Alcantar-Baca v. Liberty Northwest Insurance

Claimant seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board that determined that, because his request for reclassification of an injury from nondisabling to disabling was made more than one year after the date of his injury, that request is time-barred under ORS 656.277(1) and must, instead, be processed as an aggravation claim under ORS 656.277(2). We agree with the Board’s ultimate conclusion that ORS 656.277(2) requires claimant’s request for reclassification to be made as an aggravation claim. Accordingly, we affirm.

Claimant injured his right ankle on May 10, 1995, while working…