SAIF Corp. v. Martinez

Employer ACW, Inc., and its workers’ compensation insurer SAIF Corporation (SAIF) seek judicial review of an en banc opinion and order of the Workers’ Compensation Board (board), which determined that there was a sufficient causal relationship between requested medical services, viz., arthroscopic surgery, and claimant’s accepted claim to support the compensability of those services under ORS 656.245. They assert that the board erred in so determining, because the requested services in fact pertained to a condition not encompassed within the accepted claim and claimant had not requested…