SAIF Corp. v. Ross

The Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services (director) issued an order requiring petitioner SAIF Corporation (SAIF) to pay for claimant’s chiropractic treatment, concluding that claimant had provided SAIF with an adequate treatment plan even though different components of the plan came to SAIF in separate documents. SAIF seeks judicial review, arguing that the relevant rule requires a plan submitted in a single document signed by claimant’s treating physician. We review the interpretation of an agency rule for legal error, ORS 183.482(8)(a), but we defer to an agency’s…