Gunter v. Mersereau

This appeal raises the sole issue of whether a person employed to care for an invalid in the invalid’s home comes within the exclusion from workmen’s compensation coverage for “domestic servants.” ORS 656.027(1). The trial court affirmed the Workmen’s Compensation Board’s order denying coverage.

Claimant was employed to care for a stroke victim who required round-the-clock attention. Previously, she had worked as a nurse’s aide. Her duties at defendant’s home during the eight hour shift she worked can be summarized as follows: giving oral medication, heating dinner and feeding it to the…