SAIF Corp. v. Shipley

The question in this workers’ compensation case is where to resolve a medical services dispute that claimant raised before the Workers’ Compensation Board (Board) at a hearing that originally had been set to review a denial of compensability. We hold that the Board did not have authority to conduct a hearing involving a medical services dispute.

Claimant suffered a compensable left knee injury in September of 1989. The resulting claim was closed in 1991 with an award of temporary and permanent partial disability. Claimant’s left knee symptoms persisted for some period, and he took medications…