Oregon Board Remands Insufficiently Developed Asbestos, Mold Dust Claim

SALEM, Ore. - An Oregon Worker's Compensation Board has remanded a workers' compensation case filed by a man whose claim of lung-related injury was precluded by dismissal of a previous claim filed for a similar occupational injury. In the Matter of Compensation of Lyle R. King, Claimant WCB Case No. 01-09943 (Ore. Workers' Comp. Bd.)

In a Nov. 5 decision, the board vacated the administrative law judge's decision to deny the claim based on issue preclusion, finding that the case had been insufficiently developed.

The claimant, Lyle R. King, had requested a review of an Administrative Law Judge's (ALJ) order …