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

Argued and submitted June 8,
    petition for judicial review dismissed July 18, 1990
    In the Matter of the Compensation of Isabel David Hernandez, Claimant. Isabel David HERNANDEZ, Petitioner, v. SAIF CORPORATION and Martinez General Construction, Respondents.
    
    (89-0581M; CA A63091)
    794 P2d 831
    Darris K. Rowell, Salem, argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief was Olson, Rowell & Walsh, Salem.
    Jerome Lidz, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, waived appearance for respondents.
    Before Buttler, Presiding Judge, and Rossman and De Muniz, Judges.
    PER CURIAM
   PER CURIAM

Claimant petitions for review of an Own Motion order of the Workers’ Compensation Board, assigning error to the Board’s award of attorney fees. ORS 656.278(3) provides, in part:

“The claimant has no right to appeal any order or award made by the board on its own motion, except when the order diminishes or terminates a former award.”

The Board’s order increased claimant’s former award of compensation. Therefore, claimant has no right to seek review of the order.

Petition for judicial review dismissed. 
      
       OAR 438-15-080 provides:
      “If the Board orders increased compensation for temporary disability, the Board shall approve a fee of 25 percent of the increased compensation, not to exceed $1,050.”
      The Board approved “a reasonable attorney fee of 25 percent of the additional compensation awarded by the Board’s order, not to exceed $150.” Claimant assures us that the amount of the fee award was deliberate, not merely a typographical error.