Duffour v. Portland Community College

Claimant petitions for review of a final order of the Workers’ Compensation Board; employer cross-petitions for review of the same order. ORS 656.298(1), (4). The issue presented is whether claimant raised his requests for various penalties and attorney fees in connection with employer’s premature closure of his workers’ compensation claim in a procedurally proper manner. The board concluded that claimant had not properly raised some of his requests for penalties and fees but had properly raised others. On review, claimant assigns error to the board’s denial of those penalties and fees that…