In re Western States Building-Loan Ass'n

How courts have described this case

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• finding that “radiculopathy,” defined by the medical evidence as “pain that radiates along the course of a nerve root that exits from the spine,” was a “symptom and not a condition”
• finding that “radiculopathy,” defined by the medical evidence as “pain that radiates along the course of a nerve root that exits from the spine,” was a “symptom and not a condition” (emphasis added)
• explaining that “the plain, natural, and ordinary meaning of the word ‘condition’ is ‘the physical status of the body as a whole *** or of one of its parts,”’ in considering the term “medical condition” in ORS 656.267(1
• applying that standard to the distinction between “conditions” and “symptoms”
• meaning of “medical condition” in workers’ compensation statute is question of law, not medical fact
• radiculopathy, defined by the evidence as “pain that radiates along the course of a nerve root that exits from the spine,” is a symptom, not a condition

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).