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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Argued and submitted October 18,
    reversed and remanded for reconsideration of attorney fees; otherwise affirmed December 4, 1991
    In the Matter of the Compensation of Darrel K. Rickman, Claimant. Darrel K. RICKMAN, Petitioner, v. SAIF CORPORATION and Sure-Gro, Inc., Respondents.
    
    (89-25573; CA A68991)
    821 P2d 438
    Charles D. Maier and Gatti, Gatti, Maier & Associates, Salem, filed the brief for petitioner.
    Thomas E. Ewing, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief were Dave Frohnmayer, Attorney General, and Virginia L. Linder, Solicitor General, Salem.
    
      Before Buttler, Presiding Judge, and Rossman and De Muniz, Judges.
    PER CURIAM
   PER CURIAM

Claimant seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board denying him a penalty and attorney fees for SAIF’s alleged unreasonable denial of his claim for “future” medical benefits. Even if the denial was unreasonable, there is no amount due against which a penalty could be assessed. However, we remand the case to the Board for an award of attorney fees under ORS 656.386(1) for SAIF’s withdrawal of its denial after claimant’s request for hearing had been filed but before the hearing was held. Jones v. OSCI, 108 Or App 230, 814 P2d 558 (1991); Or Laws 1991, ch 312, §1.

Reversed and remanded for reconsideration of attorney fees; otherwise affirmed.