Orowheat-Bimbo Bakeries USA-BBU, Inc. v. Vargas

Employer and its workers’ compensation insurance carrier seek review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board holding that claimant is substantively entitled to temporary disability benefits for a period of time authorized by an attending physician who was not a member of employer’s managed care organization (MCO). The facts are not in dispute. We review the board’s order for errors of law, ORS 183.482(8), and affirm.

Claimant compensably injured his back in February 2010. Before accepting the claim, employer enrolled claimant in an MCO and informed him by letter that he was required to…