Bradley v. State Accident Insurance Fund

The claimant-beneficiary widow (hereinafter claimant) of a deceased worker appeals from an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board affirming the Referee’s order finding (1) that the worker was not permanently and totally disabled by reason of his industrial injury at the time of his death and (2) that claimant was barred under ORS 656.218 1 from seeking a redetermination of the degree of the worker’s permanent partial disability at the time of death. Claimant assigns both of these findings as error. We affirm.

Claimant first challenges the denial of permanent total disability pursuant to ORS…