SAIF Corp. v. Henwood

Health Future, LLC, and its insurer, SAIF (collectively “employer”), seek judicial review of a Workers’ Compensation Board (Board) order finding claimant’s occupational disease compensable and assigning responsibility to employer even though an earlier out-of-state employment was the major contributing cause of the disease. We review for errors of law, ORS 656.298(7) and ORS 183.482(8)(a), and affirm.

Claimant developed carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) from work performed for a California employer and received benefits under California’s workers’ compensation statutes. Subsequently, she moved to…