127 Or. App. 478 - Ferguson v. U.S. Epperson Underwriting’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “"If the basis for objection to a notice of closure or determination order issued under this section is disagreement with the impairment used in rating of the worker's disability, the director shall refer the claim to a medical arbiter appointed by the director. At the request of either of the parties, a panel of three medical arbiters shall be appointed. * * * The medical arbiter or panel of medical arbiters may examine the worker and perform such tests as may be reasonable and necessary to establish the worker's impairment. * * * The findings of the medical arbiter or panel of medical arbiters shall be submitted to the department for reconsideration of the determination order or notice of closure, and no subsequent medical evidence of the worker's impairment is admissible before the department, the board or the courts for the purpose of making findings of impairment on the claim closure. " (Emphasis supplied.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 132 Or. App. 182 - Jackson v. Tuality Community Hospital