SAIF Corp. v. Swartz

Employer LDN Excavation, Inc., and its workers’ compensation insurer SAIF Corporation (SAIF) seek judicial review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board (board), which determined that the medical services requested by claimant were compensable under ORS 656.245(l)(a). That statute provides, in part, that, “[f]or every compensable injury, the insurer or the self-insured employer shall cause to be provided medical services for conditions caused in material part by the injury * * The board found that there was a sufficient causal relationship between claimant’s requested medical services…