Weiker v. Douglas County School District No. 4

Claimant seeks judicial review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board (board), which determined that the medical services requested by claimant were not compensable under ORS 656.245(1)(a). That statute requires claimant’s self-insured employer to provide “medical services for conditions caused in material part” by a compensable injury. Claimant suffered a compensable injury, a traumatic blockage of the popliteal artery near her left knee, which was repaired by a popliteal bypass graft and several bypasses of other arteries to improve blood flow to the graft. Ten years later, because…