SAIF Corporation v. Eller

In this medical fee dispute arising out of a workers’ compensation claim, petitioners SAIF Corporation and its insured, Miller Timber Services, Inc. (Miller), 1 seek judicial review of a final order of the Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS), Workers’ Compensation Division (WCD or the division). In that order, DCBS concluded that the services of a nonlicensed surgical assistant, Inez Eller, were reimbursable. SAIF makes both a procedural and a substantive challenge to the order, the first relating to the authority of a WCD employee to file exceptions to the hearing officer’s…