GROTH v. STATE ACC. INS. FUND

No. 77-489E; CA 11116.

588 P.2d 45 (1978)

37 Or.App. 517

Compensation of Melvin GROTH, Claimant, Appellant, v. STATE Accident Insurance Fund, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Oregon.

Decided December 18, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan M. Lee, Klamath Falls, argued the cause and filed brief, for appellant.

W.D. Bates, Jr., Associate Counsel, State Acc. Ins. Fund, Legal Division, Eugene, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were K.R. Maloney, Chief Counsel, and James A. Blevins, Chief Trial Counsel, State Acc. Ins. Fund, Legal Division, Salem.

Before SCHWAB, C.J., and THORNTON, TANZER and BUTTLER, JJ.


SCHWAB, Chief Judge.

Claimant appeals from a circuit court affirmance of a Workers' Compensation Board denial of his claim for compensation for a disability to his low back which he contends is work-related. We agree with the denial.

The dispositive question is whether claimant's low back problem which first became the subject of attention in mid-1975 is related to his industrial injury of July, 1974, at which time claimant made a claim for injury only to...

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