WILLAMETTE INDUSTRIES, INC. v. TITUS

94-09737, 94-09798, 94-06921; CA A92576.

950 P.2d 318 (1997)

151 Or. App. 76

In the Matter of the Compensation of Lewis H. Titus, Claimant. WILLAMETTE INDUSTRIES, INC., Petitioner, v. Lewis H. TITUS, Pope & Talbot, Inc., SAIF Corporation, Pacific Gas & Transmission, and Employers Insurance of Wausau, Inc., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Oregon.

Decided October 22, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerald P. Keene argued the cause and filed the briefs for petitioner.

Philip Emerson, Bend, argued the cause for respondent Lewis H. Titus. With him on the brief was Brothers, Steelhammer & Ash.

David L. Runner, Salem, argued the cause and filed the brief for respondents Pope & Talbot, Inc., and SAIF Corporation.

David O. Horne, Portland, argued the cause and filed the brief for respondents Pacific Gas & Transmission and Employers Insurance of Wausau, Inc.

Before DEITS, C.J., and De MUNIZ and HASELTON, JJ.


De MUNIZ, Judge.

Willamette Industries, Inc., a self-insured employer, seeks review of an order of the Workers' Compensation Board (Board) assigning it responsibility for claimant's 1994 injury. We review for errors of law and substantial evidence, ORS 656.298(6); ORS 183.482(7) and (8), and affirm.

In 1980, while working as a log truck driver for Pope & Talbot (SAIF's insured), claimant's lower back began to trouble him. Without identifying a specific...

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