Vukasin v. Liberty Northwest Insurance

Claimant petitions for review of a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board (the board)1 upholding respondent insurer’s denial of compensability of medical services under ORS 656.245(1)(a). In particular, claimant seeks review of the board’s determination that a 2009 ankle surgery was not compensably related to a 2000 workplace ankle injury; claimant also challenges the amount of her attorney-fee award. Because we conclude that substantial evidence supports the board’s finding that claimant’s surgery was not directed to any of her accepted conditions,2 we affirm the order of the board. We…