Opinion

LeFave v. SAIF Corp.

  • 203 Or. App. 108
  • 125 P.3d 33
  • 2005 Ore. App. LEXIS 1557
Court
Court of Appeals of Oregon
Filed
Dec 7, 2005
Status
Published
On the bench
Brewer, Edmonds, Schuman
Cited by
0 cases
Authority
More cited than 17.2%

The opinion

PER CURIAM

Claimant seeks judicial review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board that reversed an award of attorney fees to claimant. The board reasoned that a letter from SAIF to claimant that neither accepted nor denied his new medical condition did not result in a “denied claim” for purposes of the attorney fee statute, ORS 656.386(l)(b) (1997), amended by Or Laws 2001, ch 865, § 9. While this case was pending on appeal, this court decided Rose v. SAIF, 200 Or App 654 , 116 P3d 913 (2005), and held that an “encompassed condition letter” is not a sufficient response to a claimant’s new medical condition claim. SAIF concedes that Rose undermines the board’s reasoning in this case, and that the case should be remanded for reconsideration in light of that opinion. We agree, and we reverse and remand so that the board may reconsider its order in light of our opinion in Rose .

Reversed and remanded for reconsideration.

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