Case ID: or-app_64/html/0724-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

On respondent’s petition for attorney fee filed July 27,
    petition for attorney fee allowed September 28, 1983
    In the Matter of the Compensation of Eugene Muehlhauser, Claimant. STATE ACCIDENT INSURANCE FUND CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. MUEHLHAUSER, Respondent.
    
    (83-0027M; CA A28596)
    669 P2d 387
    Willard E. Merkel, Portland, appeared for the petition.
    Darrell E. Bewley, Appellate Counsel, State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation, Salem, appeared contra.
    Before Warden, Presiding Judge, and Van Hoomissen and Young, Judges.
    PER CURIAM
   PER CURIAM

After SAIF appealed the decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board here, claimant moved to dismiss on the ground that we lacked jurisdiction because the order appealed from was not final. We agreed and dismissed SAIF’s appeal. Claimant now seeks an award of attorney fees for his attorney’s services before the appeal was dismissed. SAIF objects.

Claimant’s compensation was not reduced or disallowed as a result of SAIF’s appeal. Claimant is therefore entitled to receive a reasonable attorney’s fee. ORS 656.012(2) (b); see SAIF v. Bond, 64 Or App 505, 669 P2d 332 (1983).

$375 attorney fee allowed.