Cottrell v. EBI Companies

The issue in this workers’ compensation case is whether claimant is entitled to survivor’s benefits under ORS 656.226, which provides:

“In case an unmarried man and an unmarried woman have cohabited in this state as husband and wife for over one year prior to the date of an accidental injury received by one or the other as a subject worker, and children are living as a result of that relation, the surviving cohabitant and the children are entitled to compensation under ORS 656.001 to 656.794 the same as if the man and woman had been legally married.”

Claimant and the deceased worker, Seabeck,…