Agripac, Inc. v. Beem

Employer petitions from an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board awarding temporary partial disability, and claimant cross-petitions from the same order, contending that the Board erred in failing to make an award of permanent partial disability. We affirm on the petition, and write only to address the cross-petition.

Claimant contends that under ORS 656.245-(3)(b)(B), only Dr. Feinberg, his attending physician, could rate his impairment, and that the Board erred in rejecting his opinion and in admitting the opinions of independent medical examiners. Claimant is correct that only the…