Temporary Disability Benefits & Short-Term Disability Benefits

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…

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…

More good news for working men and women!  A recent Workers’ Compensation case clarified that, for injured workers working out of a union hall, the rate of temporary disability benefits/time loss is based on a five-day work week at 40 hours per week, regardless of the number of days actually worked on the current job. …