Kobayashi v. Siuslaw Care Center

Claimant seeks review of a Workers’ Compensation Board order which sustained the referee and found that his current clubfoot condition is not compensably related to a previous compensable injury to his knee. We reverse and remand.

Claimant, who was born in 1950 and who is of dull normal intelligence, has a history of psychiatric difficulties and hospitalizations extending back to his childhood. He was hospitalized three times at the Oregon Health Sciences University Hospital in Portland in 1978 and 1980. At these times, he had suicidal tendencies, significant paranoia and showed a volatile…