Partridge v. State Accident Insurance Fund Corp.

Claimant appeals an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board (Board) which reversed a referee’s order granting her compensation for permanent total disability. The issues on appeal are (1) whether claimant’s pre-existing psychiatric condition was worsened by her industrial injury, (2) whether claimant’s osteoarthritic condition is related to her industrial injury, and (3) whether claimant has been adequately compensated for her knee injury by the determination order. We review de novo. ORS 656.298(6).

Claimant was 58 years old in January, 1976, when she sustained a work-related knee injury.…