Court Opinion

ID: 9590533
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:55:49.39425+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:33:53.648287
License: Public Domain

LENT, J.,
concurring.
I write separately only to express what I perceive to be the thrust of the opinion of the court. “Stress” is not the disease. It is a word which describes the mechanism by which conditions or events actually present at the work place result in mental disease.
*167An occupational disease is considered an injury except as otherwise provided in the Occupational Disease Law, ORS 656.804. As such, the disease may be a nondisabling compensable injury if it requires medical services only, ORS 656.005(8) (c), or a disabling compensable injury if the disease results in disability or death, ORS 656.005(8)(b).
If conditions or events actually present at the work place are the major contributing cause of a mental disease necessitating medical services or resulting in disability, the worker is entitled to compensation as defined in ORS 656.005(9) under the Occupational Disease Law.