Case Title: North Clackamas School Dist. v. White

Citation: 305 Or. 468, 752 P.2d 1210

Docket Number: 

State: oregon

Court: Oregon Supreme Court

Date: 1988-04-19T00:00:00Z

Document:
752 P.2d 1210 (1988)
305 Or. 468
In the matter of the Compensation of Dawn White, Claimant.
NORTH CLACKAMAS SCHOOL DIST., Respondent On Review/Petitioner On Reconsideration,
v.
Dawn WHITE, Petitioner On Review/Respondent On Reconsideration.
WCB 83-09151/CA A36411/SC S34192.

Supreme Court of Oregon, In Banc.
On Petition for Reconsideration of Decision Filed February 17, 1988.[*]
Decided April 19, 1988.
*1211 Jerald P. Keene, of Roberts, Reinisch & Klor, P.C., Portland, for respondent on review/petitioner on reconsideration.
Donald E. Beer, of Galton, Popick & Scott, P.C., Portland, for petitioner on review/respondent on reconsideration.
PETERSON, Chief Justice.
In this workers' compensation case, the employer seeks reconsideration. It asserts: (1) that the issue before the Court of Appeals and this court on the employer's appeal and petition for review concerned only the claimant's claim for medical services for a hip condition, that no worsening claim is involved, and that we erred in stating and deciding that a worsening claim was involved; and (2) that "the Court of Appeals properly found an identity of factual issues sufficient to warrant application of the res judicata principles this Court itself has now adopted in Workers' Compensation cases," and that we erred in holding that the Court of Appeals erred in applying res judicata to the claim for medical treatment of the hip injury. The employer's first assertion is correct; its second assertion is not.
No worsening claim is involved, and we erred in stating that one was. This case now involves only the claimant's claim for medical expenses for the hip injury.
We should have concluded our earlier opinion as follows (these three paragraphs replace the last three paragraphs of the opinion):
Petition for reconsideration allowed. Opinion modified. Remanded to the Court of Appeals.
[*]  305 Or. 48, 750 P.2d 485 (1988).