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Section 656.005 - Definitions. - (2)(a) "Beneficiary" means an injured worker, and the spouse in...
Section 656.012 - Findings and policy. - (a) The performance of various industrial enterprises necessary to the...
Section 656.017 - Employer required to pay compensation and perform other duties; state not authorized to be direct responsibility employer. - (a) As a carrier-insured employer; or (b) As a self-insured...
Section 656.018 - Effect of providing coverage; exclusive remedy. - (b) This subsection shall not apply to claims for indemnity...
Section 656.019 - Civil negligence action for claim denied on basis of failure to meet major contributing cause standard; statute of limitations. - (b) Nothing in this subsection grants a right for a...
Section 656.020 - Damage actions by workers against noncomplying employers; defenses outlawed. - (1) The injury was caused in whole or in part...
Section 656.021 - Coverage exception for laborers under contracts with construction and landscape contractor licensees. - (1) Has a construction contractor license issued by the Construction...
Section 656.025 - Individuals engaged in commuter ridesharing not subject workers; conditions. - (a) The worker is reimbursed for travel expenses incurred therein;...
Section 656.027 - Who are subject workers. - (1) A worker employed as a domestic servant in or...
Section 656.029 - Obligation of person awarding contract to provide coverage for workers under contract; exceptions; effect of failure to provide coverage. - (2) If a person to whom the contract is awarded...
Section 656.031 - Coverage for municipal volunteer personnel. - (2) The county, city or other municipality utilizing volunteer personnel...
Section 656.033 - Coverage for participants in work experience or school directed professional training programs. - (2) A school district conducting a work experience program or...
Section 656.039 - Election of coverage for workers not subject to law; procedure; cancellation; election of coverage for home care workers and personal support workers. - (2) Any election under subsection (1) of this section may...
Section 656.041 - City or county may elect to provide coverage for adults in custody. - (a) "Adult in custody" means a person sentenced by any...
Section 656.044 - State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation may insure liability under Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act; procedure; cancellation. - (2) The State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation may, from time...
Section 656.046 - Coverage of persons in college work experience and professional education programs. - (2) A college conducting a work experience program or college...
Section 656.052 - Prohibition against employment without coverage; proposed order declaring noncomplying employer; effect of failure to comply. - (2) Whenever the Director of the Department of Consumer and...
Section 656.054 - Claim of injured worker of noncomplying employer; procedure for disputing acceptance of claim; recovery of costs from noncomplying employer; restrictions. - (2) In addition to, and not in lieu of, any...
Section 656.056 - Subject employers must post notice of manner of compliance. - (2) No employer who is not currently a subject employer...
Section 656.070 - Definitions for ORS 656.027, 656.070 and 656.075. - (1) "Newspaper" has the meaning for that term provided in...
Section 656.075 - Exemption from coverage for newspaper carriers; casualty insurance and other requirements. - (1) Encourages any minor so utilized to remain in school...
Section 656.126 - Coverage while temporarily in or out of state; judicial notice of other state’s laws; agreements between states relating to conflicts of jurisdiction; limitation on compensation for claims in this state and other jurisdictions. - (2) Any worker from another state and the employer of...
Section 656.128 - Sole proprietors, limited liability company members, partners, independent contractors may elect coverage by insurer; cancellation. - (2) When the application is accepted, such person thereupon is...
Section 656.132 - Coverage of minors. - (2) If an employer subject to this chapter in good...
Section 656.135 - Coverage of deaf school work experience trainees. - (2) All persons participating as trainees in a work experience...
Section 656.138 - Coverage of apprentices, trainees participating in related instruction classes. - (2) A school district, community college district or education service...
Section 656.140 - Coverage of persons operating equipment for hire. - (2) As used in this section "equipment" means: (a) A...
Section 656.156 - Intentional injuries. - (2) If injury or death results to a worker from...
Section 656.160 - Effect of incarceration on receipt of compensation. - (2) As used in this section, an individual is not...
Section 656.170 - Validity of provisions of certain collective bargaining agreements; alternative dispute resolution systems; exclusive medical service provider lists; authority of director. - (a) An alternative dispute resolution system governing disputes between employees,...
Section 656.172 - Applicability of and criteria for establishing program under ORS 656.170. - (a) An employer incurring or projecting an annual workers’ compensation...
Section 656.174 - Rules. - (1) Establishing and operating an alternative dispute resolution system; (2)...
Section 656.202 - Compensation payable to subject worker in accordance with law in effect at time of injury; exceptions; notice regarding payment. - (2) Except as otherwise provided by law, payment of benefits...
Section 656.204 - Death. - (1)(a) The cost of final disposition of the body and...
Section 656.206 - Permanent total disability. - (a) "Essential functions" means the primary tasks associated with the...
Section 656.209 - Offsetting permanent total disability benefits against Social Security benefits. - (a) If the benefit amount to which the worker is...
Section 656.210 - Temporary total disability; payment during medical treatment; election; rules. - (2)(a) For the purpose of this section, the weekly wage...
Section 656.212 - Temporary partial disability. - (1) No disability payment is recoverable for temporary disability suffered...
Section 656.214 - Permanent partial disability. - (a) "Impairment" means the loss of use or function of...
Section 656.216 - Permanent partial disability; method of payment; effect of prior receipt of temporary disability payments. - (2) If a worker, who is entitled to compensation for...
Section 656.218 - Continuance of permanent partial disability payments to survivors; effect of death prior to final claim disposition. - (2) If the worker’s death occurs prior to issuance of...
Section 656.225 - Compensability of certain preexisting conditions. - (1) In occupational disease or injury claims other than those...
Section 656.228 - Payments directly to beneficiary or custodian. - (2) Compensation paid to an injured worker who is a...
Section 656.230 - Lump sum award payments. - (a) Worker has not waived the right to appeal the...
Section 656.232 - Payments to aliens residing outside of United States. - (2) If a beneficiary is an alien residing outside of...
Section 656.234 - Compensation not assignable nor to pass by operation of law; certain benefits subject to support obligations. - (2) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section: (a) Moneys...
Section 656.236 - Compromise and release of claim matters except for medical benefits; approval by Administrative Law Judge or board; approval by director for certain reserve reimbursements; restriction on charging costs to workers; restriction on jo... - (A) The Administrative Law Judge who mediated the agreement or...
Section 656.245 - Medical services to be provided; services by providers not members of managed care organizations; authorizing temporary disability compensation and making finding of impairment for disability rating purposes by certain providers; re... - (b) Compensable medical services shall include medical, surgical, hospital, nursing,...
Section 656.247 - Payment for medical services prior to claim acceptance or denial; review of disputed services; duty of health benefit plan to pay for certain medical services in denied claim. - (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, no payment shall...
Section 656.248 - Medical service fee schedules; basis of fees; application to service provided by managed care organization; resolution of fee disputes; rules. - (a) The current procedural codes and relative value units of...
Section 656.252 - Medical report regulation; rules; duties of attending physician or nurse practitioner; disclosure of information; notice of changing attending physician or nurse practitioner; copies of medical service billings to be furnished to wo... - (a) Requiring attending physicians and nurse practitioners authorized to provide...
Section 656.254 - Medical report forms; penalties and other sanctions; procedure for declaring health care practitioner ineligible for workers’ compensation reimbursement. - (2) The director shall establish sanctions for the enforcement of...
Section 656.260 - Certification procedure for managed health care provider; peer review, quality assurance, service utilization and contract review; confidentiality of certain information; immunity from liability; rules; medical service dispute resol... - (2) Each application for certification shall be accompanied by a...
Section 656.262 - Processing of claims and payment of compensation; payment by employer; acceptance and denial of claim; penalties and attorney fees; cooperation by worker and attorney in claim investigation; rules. - (2) The compensation due under this chapter shall be paid...
Section 656.264 - Compensable injury, denied claim and other reports. - (2) The director may require insurers and self-insured employers to...
Section 656.265 - Notice of accident from worker. - (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this subsection, if an injured...
Section 656.266 - Burden of proving compensability and nature and extent of disability. - (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, for the purpose...
Section 656.267 - Claims for new and omitted medical conditions. - (2)(a) Claims properly initiated for new medical conditions and omitted...
Section 656.268 - Claim closure; termination of temporary total disability benefits; reconsideration of closure; medical arbiter to make findings of impairment for reconsideration; credit or offset for fraudulently obtained or overpaid benefits; rule... - (a) The worker has become medically stationary and there is...
Section 656.273 - Aggravation for worsened conditions; procedure; limitations; additional compensation. - (a) The worker’s absence from work for any given amount...
Section 656.277 - Request for reclassification of nondisabling claim; nondisabling claim procedure; attorney fees. - (b) If the worker is represented by an attorney and...
Section 656.278 - Board has continuing authority to alter earlier action on claim; limitations. - (a) There is a worsening of a compensable injury that...
Section 656.283 - Hearing rights and procedure; rules; impeachment evidence; use of standards for evaluation of disability. - (2) A request for hearing may be made by any...
Section 656.287 - Use of vocational reports in determining loss of earning capacity at hearing; rules. - (2) The Workers’ Compensation Board shall establish rules to govern...
Section 656.289 - Orders of Administrative Law Judge; review; disposition of claim when compensability disputed; approval of director required for reimbursement of certain expenditures. - (2) A copy of the order shall be sent forthwith...
Section 656.291 - Expedited Claim Service; jurisdiction; procedure; representation; rules. - (2) The board shall assign to the service those claims:...
Section 656.295 - Board review of Administrative Law Judge orders; application of standards for evaluation of disability. - (2) The requests for review shall be mailed to the...
Section 656.298 - Judicial review of board orders; settlement during pendency of petition for review. - (2) The name and style of the proceedings shall be...
Section 656.307 - Determination of issues regarding responsibility for compensation payment; mediation or arbitration procedure; rules. - (A) Which of several subject employers is the true employer...
Section 656.308 - Responsibility for payment of claims; effect of new injury; denial of responsibility; procedure for joining employers and insurers; attorney fees; limitation on filing claims subject to settlement agreement. - (2)(a) Any insurer or self-insured employer who disputes responsibility for...
Section 656.310 - Presumption concerning notice of injury and self-inflicted injuries; reports as evidence. - (a) Sufficient notice of injury was given and timely filed;...
Section 656.313 - Stay of compensation pending request for hearing or review; procedure for denial of claim for medical services; reimbursement. - (A) Temporary disability benefits that accrue from the date of...
Section 656.319 - Time within which hearing must be requested. - (a) A request for hearing is filed not later than...
Section 656.325 - Required medical examination; worker-requested examination; qualified physicians; claimant’s duty to reduce disability; suspension or reduction of benefits; cessation or reduction of temporary total disability benefits; rules; penal... - (b) When a worker is requested by the director, the...
Section 656.327 - Review of medical treatment of worker; findings; review; costs. - (b) Unless the director issues an order finding that no...
Section 656.328 - List of authorized providers and standards of professional conduct for providers of independent medical examinations; exclusion; complaints; rules. - (2) A provider on the list maintained by the director...
Section 656.331 - Contact, medical examination of worker represented by attorney prohibited without written notice; rules. - (a) The Director of the Department of Consumer and Business...
Section 656.340 - Vocational assistance procedure; eligibility criteria; service providers; resolution of vocational assistance disputes; rules. - (b) For this purpose the insurer or self-insured employer shall...
Section 656.360 - Confidentiality of worker medical and vocational claim records. - (1) Made with the consent of the worker or the...
Section 656.362 - Liability for disclosure of worker medical and vocational claim records. - (a) Any insurer or assigned claims agent for disclosing worker...
Section 656.382 - Penalties and attorney fees payable by insurer or employer in processing claim. - (2) If a request for hearing, request for review, appeal...
Section 656.383 - Attorney fees in cases prior to decision or after request for hearing. - (1) The claimant’s attorney is instrumental in obtaining temporary disability...
Section 656.385 - Attorney fees in cases regarding certain medical service or vocational rehabilitation matters; rules; limitation; penalties. - (2) If an insurer or self-insured employer refuses to pay...
Section 656.386 - Recovery of attorney fees, expenses and costs in appeal on denied claim; attorney fees in other cases. - (b) For purposes of this section, a "denied claim" is:...
Section 656.388 - Approval of attorney fees required; lien for fees; fee schedule; adjustment; report of legal service costs. - (2) Any claim for payment to a claimant’s attorney by...
Section 656.390 - Frivolous appeals, hearing requests or motions; expenses and attorney fee. - (2) As used in this section, "frivolous" means the matter...
Section 656.403 - Obligations of self-insured employer. - (2) The claims of subject workers and their beneficiaries resulting...
Section 656.407 - Qualifications of insured employers. - (a) As a carrier-insured employer by causing proof of coverage...
Section 656.419 - Workers’ compensation insurance contracts. - (2)(a) The insurer issuing the workers’ compensation insurance policy shall...
Section 656.423 - Cancellation of coverage by employer; notice required. - (2) Cancellation of coverage is effective at 12 midnight 30...
Section 656.427 - Termination of workers’ compensation insurance contract or surety bond liability by insurer. - (2) An insurer may cancel a workers’ compensation insurance policy...
Section 656.430 - Certification of self-insured employer; employer groups; insurance policy requirements; revocation of certification; rules. - (2) Coverage of a self-insured employer is effective on the...
Section 656.434 - Certification effective until canceled or revoked; revocation of certificate. - (a) Revoked by the Director of the Department of Consumer...
Section 656.440 - Notice of certificate revocation; appeal; effective date. - (2) If the employer appeals, the Hearings Division of the...
Section 656.441 - Advancement of funds from Workers’ Benefit Fund for compensation due workers insured by certain decertified self-insured employer groups. - (2) Expenditures authorized under this section may exceed the amount...
Section 656.443 - Procedure upon default by employer or self-insured employer group; rules. - (2) Before any default by the employer or self-insured employer...
Section 656.445 - Advancement of funds from Workers’ Benefit Fund for compensation due workers insured by insurer in default; limitations; rules. - (2) The maximum expenditures that may be made under this...
Section 656.447 - Sanctions against insurer for failure to comply with contracts, orders or rules. - (a) The company has failed to comply with its obligations...
Section 656.455 - Self-insured employers to process claims and make records available at authorized locations; disposal of records; expenses for out-of-state audits; rules. - (b) The self-insured employer may dispose of the records described...
Section 656.504 - Rates, charges, fees and reports by employers insured by State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation. - (2) The State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation may provide for...
Section 656.505 - Estimate of payroll when employer fails to file payroll report; demand for and recovery of premiums and assessments. - (2) If the report required and the premiums and assessments...
Section 656.506 - Assessments for programs; setting assessment amount; determination by director of benefit level. - (a) "Employee" means a subject worker as defined in ORS...
Section 656.508 - Authority to fix premium rates for employers. - (2) The State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation may annually, and...
Section 656.526 - Distribution of dividends from surplus in Industrial Accident Fund. - (2) If, after the determination required by subsection (1) of...
Section 656.536 - Premium charges for coverage of reforestation cooperative workers based on prevailing wage; manner of determining prevailing wage. - (2) Each time a cooperative contracts for services, the cooperative...
Section 656.552 - Deposit of cash, bond or letter of credit to secure payment of employer’s premiums. - (2) The State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation may, in its...
Section 656.554 - Injunction against employer failing to comply with deposit requirements. - (2) Upon filing of a suit for such purpose by...
Section 656.560 - Default in payment of premiums, fees, assessments or deposit; remedies. - (2) If any employer insured with the State Accident Insurance...
Section 656.562 - Moneys due Industrial Accident Fund as preferred claims; moneys due department as taxes due state. - (2) All assessments, interest charges, penalties or amounts due the...
Section 656.564 - Lien for amounts due from employer on real property, improvements and equipment on or with which labor is performed by workers of employer. - (2) The insurer shall also have a lien on all...
Section 656.566 - Lien on property of employer for amounts due. - (2) The lien attaches upon the filing of a notice...
Section 656.580 - Payment of compensation notwithstanding cause of action for damages; lien on cause of action for compensation paid. - (2) The paying agency has a lien against the cause...
Section 656.583 - Paying agency may compel election and prompt action. - (2) Unless such election is made within 60 days from...
Section 656.591 - Election not to bring action operates as assignment of cause of action; repayments to department by paying agency. - (2) Any sum the paying agency recovers in excess of...
Section 656.593 - Procedure when worker or beneficiary elects to bring action; release of liability and lien of paying agency in certain cases. - (a) Costs and attorney fees incurred must be paid, and...
Section 656.595 - Precedence of cause of action; compensation paid or payable not to be an issue. - (2) In any third party action brought pursuant to this...
Section 656.596 - Damage recovery as offset against compensation; recovery procedure; notice to paying agency. - (2) The offset created by subsection (1) of this section...
Section 656.605 - Workers’ Benefit Fund; uses and limitations. - (a) Moneys received pursuant to ORS 656.506. (b) Moneys recovered...
Section 656.612 - Assessments for department activities; amount; collection procedure. - (2) The assessments shall be levied against the insurers’ direct...
Section 656.614 - Self-Insured Employer Adjustment Reserve; Self-Insured Employer Group Adjustment Reserve. - (2) If at any time the director finds that the...
Section 656.622 - Reemployment Assistance Program; claim data not to be used for insurance rating; rules. - (a) Giving employers and workers the benefits provided in this...
Section 656.625 - Reopened Claims Program; rules. - (2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any reimbursement from...
Section 656.628 - Workers with Disabilities Program; use of funds; conditions and limitations; rules. - (2) As used in this section, "worker with a disability"...
Section 656.630 - Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences funding; report of activities. - (a) The amount of revenue equivalent to one-sixteenth of one...
Section 656.632 - Industrial Accident Fund. - (2) All moneys received by the State Accident Insurance Fund...
Section 656.634 - Trust fund status of Industrial Accident Fund. - (2) Subject to the right of the State of Oregon...
Section 656.635 - Reserve accounts in Industrial Accident Fund. - (2) The State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation may provide for...
Section 656.642 - Emergency Fund. - (2) The Emergency Fund shall be disbursed by checks or...
Section 656.702 - Disclosure of records of corporation, department and insurers. - (b) Notwithstanding ORS 192.355, the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation...
Section 656.704 - Actions and orders regarding matters concerning claim and matters other than matters concerning claim; authority of director and board; administrative and judicial review; rules. - (2)(a) A party dissatisfied with an action or order regarding...
Section 656.709 - Ombudsman for injured workers; ombudsman for small business; duties. - (b) The ombudsman for injured workers shall: (A) Act as...
Section 656.712 - Workers’ Compensation Board; members; qualifications; chairperson; confirmation; term; vacancies. - (2) A member of the board shall be appointed for...
Section 656.714 - Removal of board member. - (2) If the member is removed, the Governor shall file...
Section 656.716 - Board members not to engage in political or business activity that interferes with duties as board member; oath and bond required. - (2) Before entering on the duties of office, each member...
Section 656.718 - Chairperson; quorum; panels. - (2) A majority of the board’s members shall constitute a...
Section 656.724 - Administrative Law Judges; appointment; qualifications; term; performance survey; removal procedure. - (2) Administrative Law Judges are in the unclassified service under...
Section 656.725 - Duties and status of Administrative Law Judges. - (2) Administrative Law Judges are not judges for the purposes...
Section 656.726 - Duties and powers to carry out workers’ compensation and occupational safety laws; rules. - (2) The board hereby is charged with reviewing appealed orders...
Section 656.727 - Rules for administration of benefit offset. - (1) Requiring injured workers to make application for federal Social...
Section 656.730 - Assigned risk plan. - (a) Regardless of the rating plans adopted by any rating...
Section 656.735 - Civil penalty for noncomplying employers; amount; liability of partners and of corporate and limited liability company officers; effect of final order; penalty as preferred claim; disposition of moneys collected. - (2) The director shall assess any person who continues to...
Section 656.740 - Review of proposed order declaring noncomplying employer or nonsubjectivity determination; review of proposed assessment or civil penalty; insurer as party; hearing. - (2) A person may contest a nonsubjectivity determination of the...
Section 656.745 - Civil penalty for inducing failure to report claims; limits on penalty amounts; failure to pay assessments; failure to comply with statutes, rules or orders; amount; procedure. - (b) The director may not assess under this subsection more...
Section 656.751 - State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation created; board; members’ qualifications; terms; compensation; expenses; function; report. - (2) No member of the board of directors shall have...
Section 656.752 - State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation; purpose and functions. - (2) The functions of the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation...
Section 656.753 - State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation exempt from certain financial administration laws; contracts with state agencies for services. - (2) In carrying out the duties, functions and powers imposed...
Section 656.754 - Manager; appointment; functions. - (2) The manager has such powers as are necessary to...
Section 656.758 - Inspection of books, records and payrolls; statement of employment data; civil penalty for misrepresentation; failure to submit books for inspection and refusal to keep correct payroll. - (2) Every employer subject to this chapter shall keep a...
Section 656.772 - Annual audit of State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation by Secretary of State; scope of review; report of audit. - (b) The firm conducting the review required by paragraph (a)...
Section 656.774 - Annual report by State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation to Secretary of State; contents. - (1) The total amount of assets in the Industrial Accident...
Section 656.780 - Certification and training of claims examiners; records of certification and training of examiners; department inspection of records; penalties; rules. - (a) Adopt by rule standards for certification of workers’ compensation...
Section 656.790 - Workers’ Compensation Management-Labor Advisory Committee; membership; duties; expenses. - (2) The director may recommend areas of the law which...
Section 656.795 - Informational materials for nurse practitioners. - Note: 656.795 to 656.798 were enacted into law by the...
Section 656.797 - Certification by nurse practitioner of review of required materials. - Note: See note under 656.795.
Section 656.798 - Duty of insurer, self-insured employer and self-insured employer group to provide information to director. - Note: See note under 656.795.
Section 656.799 - Informational materials for other health care professionals; certification of review of materials. - (2) Prior to providing compensable medical services or authorizing temporary...
Section 656.802 - Occupational disease; mental disorder; presumptions as to stress disorders; proof. - (A) Any disease or infection caused by ingestion of, absorption...
Section 656.807 - Time for filing of claims for occupational disease; procedure. - (a) One year from the date the worker first discovered,...
Section 656.850 - License; compliance with workers’ compensation and safety laws. - (a) "Worker leasing company" means a person who provides workers,...
Section 656.855 - Licensing system for worker leasing companies; rules; fees; dedication of moneys received. - (a) Prescribing the form and content of and the times...
Section 656.990 - Penalties. - (2) Violation of ORS 656.052 is a Class D violation....