Johnson v. State Accident Insurance Fund Corp.

ROBERTS. J.

The issues in this workers’ compensation case are, first, whether claimant timely filed her occupational disease claim and, second, whether claimant established by a preponderance of the evidence that her disease was compensable. The referee found that claimant had established a compensable occupational disease but held that her claim was not timely filed under ORS 656.807(1), because it was filed more than 180 days following the date claimant became disabled or was informed by a physician that she was suffering from an occupational disease. The Workers’ Compensation Board (Board)…