In Re Compensation of Pruitt

This case presents the interesting issue of the interplay of statutes and rules relating to the compensability of and responsibility for occupational disease claims and consequential conditions. See ORS 656.005(7)(a)(A); ORS 656.802. Employer Waste Management (WM) seeks judicial review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board setting aside its compensability denial of an occupational disease claim and assigning it responsibility for claimant’s degenerative condition of the left knee under the last injurious exposure rule. WM contends that it should not be held responsible, because…