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WAUSAU INS. v. DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF WORKERS COMP.

No. 96-70314.

114 F.3d 120 (1997)

The WAUSAU INSURANCE COMPANIES; Holmes & Narver, Incorporated, Petitioners, v. DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF WORKERS COMPENSATION PROGRAMS; Ronald Guthrie, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided May 14, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis R. VavRosky, VavRosky, MacColl, Olson, Doherty & Miller, Portland, OR, for petitioners.

Edward F. Ducey, Jr., Office of Workers Compensation, Honolulu, HI; Carol DeDeo, Thomas Shepherd, United States Department of Labor, Washington, DC, for respondent Director, Office of Workers Compensation Programs.

Kevin Nicholas Keaney, Pozzi, Wilson and Atchison, Portland, OR, for respondent Ronald Guthrie.

Before: BOOCHEVER, BRUNETTI and KOZINSKI, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

Ronald Guthrie is disabled. The question before us is whether, for purposes of computing Guthrie's disability payments, his "wages" include the value of meals and lodging he received while working on the remote Johnson Atoll in the South Pacific.

The applicable statute defines wages as

the money rate at which the service rendered by an employee is compensated by an employer under the contract of hiring in force at the time of the injury...

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