Legal Opinion
Hewitt v. State Accident Insurance Fund Corp.
Oregon Supreme Court
Decided November 16, 1982No. CA 19548, SC 28252PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*35ROBERTS, J.
We are asked in this case to determine the constitutionality of ORS 656.226, a portion of the Oregon workers’ compensation laws 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 such man, and children are living as a result of that relation, the woman 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 in this case, Floyd Hewitt, Jr., cohabited in Oregon with…
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