West v. SAIF Corp.

Claimant petitions for judicial review of a Workers’ Compensation Board order that affirmed a referee’s order upholding SAIF’s refusal to pay some of claimant’s medical expenses. The issues are whether all of claimant’s chiropractic treatments were reasonable and necessary and whether SAIF must pay a consulting physician for his examination of claimant. On de novo review, we reverse and remand.

Claimant compensably injured his back in 1979. He saw Dr. Kelley, a chiropractor, who reported that chiropractic care would enable claimant to continue working and that he would come in for a treatment…