Portland Adventist Medical Center v. Buckallew

Employer seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board that set aside its denial of claimant’s occupational disease claim. At issue is whether diabetes-related neuropathy was merely a predisposition to or was a cause of claimant’s Charcot’s joint, a form of arthritis characterized by erosion and destruction of the joint surfaces and components. Employer disputes the Board’s finding that claimant’s neuropathy is not an idiopathic cause of his condition. It asserts that the incorrect finding led the Board into the legal error of not weighing claimant’s neuropathy against his work…