The Oregon Court of Appeals overturned a denial of benefits for a worker’s back condition, finding the Workers’ Compensation Board failed, without reason, to defer to the opinion of a treating physician.
Case: Matter of the Compensation of Culley, Nos. 1801533, 1704566 and A174525, 04/13/2022, published.
Facts: Robert Culley worked for the Department of Justice as a detective. Culley began suffering from bilateral sciatica and low back pain, with pain radiating down both legs to the knees, in 2013.
A magnetic resonance imaging scan taken that year showed multilevel disc disease ...
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