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STAACK v. SANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSP.

WCB 85-01511; 85-03614; 85-01512; CA A41145.

739 P.2d 59 (1987)

86 Or.App. 290

In the matter of the Compensation of Doris STAACK, Claimant. Doris Staack, Petitioner, v. SANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, Liberty Northwest Insurance Corporation, Salem Memorial Hospital, State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation and Liberty Northwest Insurance Corporation, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Oregon.

Decided July 8, 1987.

Reconsideration Denied August 14, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce D. Smith, Salem, argued the cause for petitioner. On the brief was Stanley Fields, Salem.

Jas. Jeffrey Adams, Portland, argued the cause for respondent Santiam Memorial Hosp. With him on the brief was Acker, Underwood & Smith, Portland.

J. Richard Scruggs, Portland, argued the cause for respondents Salem Memorial Hosp. and Liberty Northwest Ins. Corp. With him on the brief was Williams & Zografos, Portland.

Christine Chute, Asst. Atty. Gen., Salem, argued the cause for respondent State Acc. Ins. Fund. With her on the brief were Dave Frohnmayer, Atty. Gen., and Virginia L. Linder, Sol. Gen., Salem.

Before WARDEN, P.J., and VAN HOOMISSEN and ROSSMAN, JJ.

WARDEN, Presiding Judge.

Claimant seeks review of a Workers' Compensation Board order which she contends erroneously denied her benefits for medical services from her previous employer, erroneously applied the major causation test to deny her occupational disease claim against her later employer and erred by not "shifting" liability from the first employer to the second. We reverse on the medical services issue.

Claimant is a surgical nurse. In 1976, while...

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