SAIF Corp. v. Danboise

The Board began its description of the applicable standard by stating that claimant “has the burden of establishing that his cervical impairment is due to his compensable injury.” That is a correct statement of the law. ORS 656.214(5). The Board then qualified that correct statement of the law with the following sentence:

*554“Claimant may, however, meet that burden by presenting a treating physician’s or medical arbiter’s report that: (1) contains impairment findings that are consistent with [his] compensable injury; and (2) does not attribute those findings to causes other than the compensable…