State Accident Insurance Fund Corp. v. Carter

SAIF petitions for review of a Workers’ Compensation Board order requiring SAIF to accept an exacerbation of claimant’s multiple sclerosis (MS) condition as compensable. We affirm.

Claimant works for the Field Services Division of the Workers’ Compensation Department. In 1980 and 1981, he was a supervisor in the Portland area. He has had MS since 1974 and has been a patient of Dr. Swank since 1975. He had several exacerbations of the disease in 1976 and 1977 but was essentially stable from then until February, 1981. Early in 1981, the Portland newspapers reported allegations that claimant, a…