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IN RE COMPENSATION OF PRUITT

03-06370, 03-05293, 03-02734, 03-02733; A133993.

198 P.3d 429 (2008)

224 Or. App. 280

In the Matter of the COMPENSATION OF Richard G. PRUITT, Claimant. Waste Management, Petitioner, v. Richard G. Pruitt, Saif Corporation and Copenhagen, Inc., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Oregon.

Decided December 3, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore P. Heus argued the cause for petitioner. On the briefs were James W. Moller and Scheminske & Lyons, LLP.

Julene M. Quinn argued the cause for respondents SAIF Corporation and Copenhagen, Inc. On the brief were Hardy Myers, Attorney General, Mary H. Williams, Solicitor General, and Jerome P. Larkin, Special Assistant Attorney General.

Brian L. Welch and Welch, Bruun & Green filed the brief for respondent Richard G. Pruitt.

Before EDMONDS, Presiding Judge, and WOLLHEIM, Judge, and SERCOMBE, Judge.

WOLLHEIM, J.

This case presents the interesting issue of the interplay of statutes and rules relating to the compensability of and responsibility for occupational disease claims and consequential conditions. See ORS 656.005(7)(a)(A); ORS 656.802. Employer Waste Management (WM) seeks judicial review of an order of the Workers' Compensation Board setting aside its compensability denial of an occupational disease claim and assigning it responsibility for claimant...

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