Skirvin v. State Accident Insurance Fund

SCHWAB, C.J..

The sole issue in this ease involves an application of that portion of the occupational disease law which provided that a medical hoard of review should hear appeals from findings of a hearing officer in occupational disease cases. The statutes, ORS 656.808 through 656.822, which were in effect at all stages of the proceedings below, have been repealed by Oregon Laws 1978, ch '543, p 1198, and therefore this opinion is probably of little interest except to the parties.

Loren Skirvin, now deceased, was a fireman. "While fighting a fire he inhaled smoke and was hospitalized for…