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IN RE: the Compensation of Louie J. Plumlee, Claimant. Mary OLDHAM, Petitioner, v. Louie J. PLUMLEE and SAIF Corporation, Respondents, Department of Consumer and Business Services, Intervenor.
Employer petitioned for judicial review of an order of the Workers' Compensation Board affirming an order of the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services that claimant is subject to the Workers' Compensation Act. Director has intervened and argues that this case is controlled by Lankford v. Copeland, 141 Or.App. 138, 917 P.2d 55 (1996), in which we held that review of non-subjectivity determinations lies with the Court of Appeals rather than with the Workers' Compensation Board and, accordingly, the Board did not have jurisdiction in this matter. Director is correct.
The issue before us is the proper disposition of the Board's order here. In Lankford, we recognized that the Director's order was not final because it did not provide a correct statement of the parties' rights to appeal. See Callahan v. Employment Division, 97 Or.App. 234, 776 P.2d 21 (1989). We reversed the Board's order and remanded with instructions to the Board to dismiss the request for review and to remand the order to Director for issuance of a new corrected order. Lankford, 141 Or.App. at 143, 917 P.2d 55.
The order here also is not final because it, too, did not give the correct notice of appeal rights. However, we now conclude that, because the Board has no jurisdiction over the Director's order, it can only dismiss the request for review. Accordingly, we overrule Lankford only to the extent that it holds that the proper disposition is that the Board remand the order to the Director.
Reversed and remanded with instructions to dismiss request for review.
De MUNIZ, Presiding Judge.
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Docket No: 93-01923; CA A86658.
Decided: November 26, 1997
Court: Court of Appeals of Oregon.
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