Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Martinez

Employer petitions for judicial review of a Workers’ Compensation Board order directing employer to pay claimant temporary partial disability benefits and not reduce those payments by the amount of short-term disability benefit payments that it made to claimant. We review the board’s order for errors of law, ORS 656.298(7); ORS 183.482(8), and affirm.

The relevant facts are not in dispute, and we state them consistently with the board’s findings. On April 7,2005, claimant suffered a compensable knee injury that required surgery. Following the operation, claimant’s surgeon released claimant to…