Deluxe Cabinet Works v. Messmer

The principal issue in this case is whether the legislature has enacted a statute that has the effect of overruling our prior decision, Messmer v. Deluxe Cabinet Works, 130 Or App 254, 881 P2d 180 (1994), rev den 320 Or 507 (1995), holding that employer is precluded from contesting compensability. Armed with what it characterizes as dispositive legislative history, employer argues that the legislature did so intend. Armed with the language of the statute itself, claimant argues that, whatever its intentions may have been, the legislature’s enactment does not require a change in the result in…