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MATTER OF COMPENSATION OF BALES

No. 80-03397, CA A23327; SC 28780.

656 P.2d 300 (1982)

294 Or. 224

In the matter of the Compensation of Orville A. Bales, Claimant. Orville A. Bales, Respondent On Review, v. STATE ACCIDENT INSURANCE FUND CORPORATION, Petitioner On Review.

Supreme Court of Oregon, In Banc.

Decided December 21, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Darrell E. Bewley, Salem, State Acc. Ins. Fund, argued the cause and filed briefs for petitioner on review.

Benton Flaxel, North Bend, argued the cause and filed the petition for respondent on review. With him on the brief in the Court of Appeals was Flaxel, Todd & Nylander, North Bend.

LENT, Chief Justice.

The issue is whether the opinion evidence of an expert that a claimant's heart attack was not caused by his job activity should be given "less weight," as a matter of law, because the expert belongs to a school of medical thought that holds that stress does not cause heart attacks. In this case, the Court of Appeals, Bales v. SAIF, 57 Or.App. 621, 626, 646 P.2d 83 ...

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