Senters v. SAIF Corp.

In this workers’ compensation case, the Board adopted the order of the referee, which affirmed two denials by SAIF Corporation (SAIF) and taxed deposition costs to claimant. Claimant petitions for review and assigns error to the denials of his separate claims for medical services and for disability and to the award of litigation costs to SAIF. We reverse as to the claim for medical services and the deposition costs.1

Claimant suffered a compensable neck and back injury on May 16,1984, while working as a logger. He fell from a log and tumbled down a hill. X-rays showed a compression fracture of…