Workers’ Compensation and Third-Party Claims

The Garrow law office won another important case before the Oregon Workers’ Compensation Board.  The injured worker, a middle school teacher and track coach who suffered a wrist injury while demonstrating throwing a discus to his track team, received an increase in his permanent disability, and a work disability award, because he could not go…

In another important decision for injured workers, the Oregon Workers’ Compensation Board decided that if workers injured on the job who have short-term disability benefits through your work, may still receive time loss (temporary disability) benefit paid by the workers’ compensation insurance company, as well as short-term disability benefits.  These benefits are not the same…

Marge of the Garrow Law office recently attended a seminar on what is new in Oregon workers’ compensation law.  A new case holds  that if you work for your employer out of your house, you may still be covered by workers’ compensation for hazards you encounter at your home. In the recent case, the worker,…

In a recent case, the employer tried to claim that a worker intentionally injured himself on the job, which would have made the injured worker ineligible for workers compensation benefits.  According to witnesses, the injured worker was walking back to the job site as a co-worker was driving a forklift in the same direction.  The…