Kempf v. State Accident Insurance Fund

According to claimant, "the only issue” in this workers’ compensation case is the constitutionality of ORS 656.226. However, in view of the dissent, we consider the additional issue of the interpretation of ORS 656.226.

ORS 656.226 provides:

"In case an unmarried man and an unmarried woman have cohabited in this state as husband and wife for over one year prior to the date of an accidental injury received by such man, and children are living as a result of that relation, the woman and the children are entitled to compensation under ORS 656.001 to 656.794 the same as if the man and woman had…