Crowder v. Alumaflex

Claimant seeks review of a decision by the Workers’ Compensation Board that denied his claim for increased permanent partial disability (PPD) benefits under the 1995 amendment to ORS 656.214(6). The Board denied the claim on the ground that claimant had not raised the issue of the PPD rate on reconsideration of the determination order in which the PPD rate had been applied. Claimant also challenges the Board’s determination that he failed to prove that his compensable injury was the major contributing cause of his current psychological condition.

The following facts are undisputed. Claimant…