Lorenzen v. SAIF Corp.

Claimant seeks review of a Workers’ Compensation Board order reversing a referee’s decision that claimant is entitled to reimbursement under ORS 656.245(1) for child care expenses incurred while she was hospitalized for treatment of her compensable condition. The Board decided that, because no physician connected claimant’s need for child care services with recovery from her injuries, she had failed to prove that the child care services were compensable as “medical or other related services” under the statute.1 We affirm, but for a different reason.

We are not persuaded that child care…