Blair v. State Accident Insurance Fund

This is an appeal by claimant from the Workers’ Compensation Board order which provides as follows:

"Claimant seeks Board review of the Referee’s order which dismissed his claim and ordered that all further compensation be suspended until claimant consents to further psychiatric examination. Claimant has contended that the Fund unreasonably resisted the payment of compensation (ORS 656.262(8)) and also that there was a de facto denial in the payment of compensation. The Referee found that the medical evidence, which was equivocal and conflicting would not support a finding that requiring a…