Murdoch v. SAIF Corp.

Claimant seeks judicial review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board (board) denying his occupational disease claim. At issue is whether the board correctly characterized claimant’s diabetes, a condition unrelated to employment, as the major contributing cause of the disease that required amputation of his toe, thereby rendering the amputation noncompensable. Claimant contends that the diabetes merely rendered him “more susceptible to” the disease and was therefore not a contributing cause of it. ORS 656.005(24)(c). We conclude that the board’s decision is not supported by…