Daugherty v. SAIF Corp.

Claimant seeks judicial review of a final order of the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services (the director) dismissing her request for administrative review of her medical services claim and refusing to transfer the matter to the Workers’ Compensation Board (the board) for a hearing. Although the parties advance a number of ancillary arguments, the central issue presented on review is whether, under ORS 656.704,1 the director had authority to determine that “there [was] no factual dispute” concerning the causal relationship between claimant’s requested medical services…