Sedgwick Claims Management Services v. Jones

Sedgwick Claims Management Services petitions for judicial review of a final order of the Workers’ Compensation Division that held that Sedgwick was responsible for the purchase of a new wheelchair-accessible modified van as a reasonable and necessary medical service under ORS 656.245. We review for errors of law, ORS 183.482(8)(a). Because, as Sedgwick argues, the division did not consider its administrative rules in ordering Sedgwick to provide the van, we reverse and remand.

The facts are undisputed. In 1978, claimant, while working for a noncomplying employer, was injured in a logging…