Muncy v. State Accident Insurance Fund

The State Accident Insurance Fund (SAIF) appeals from that part of a circuit court judgment awarding claimant an attorney’s fee of $1,000.

As its assignment of error SAIF contends that the attorney’s fee was neither proper nor reasonable.

The essential facts are as follows:

Claimant, a deputy sheriff for Multnomah County, *785filed a claim for compensation with SAIF contending that infectious mononucleosis followed by symptoms of G-uillain-Barre syndrome with mononucleosis, from which he had suffered, qualified as an occupational disease. The claim was denied by SAIF, and claimant filed a request…