Case ID: or-app_80/html/0459-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Argued and submitted April 18,
    affirmed July 23,
    reconsideration denied September 26, petition for review denied October 21, 1986 (302 Or 158)
    ESCHLIMAN, Appellant, v. GAB BUSINESS SERVICE, INC., Respondent.
    
    (16-84-09300; CA A36457)
    722 P2d 60
    Steven C. Yates, Eugene, argued the cause and filed the brief for appellant.
    Barry Shanks, Portland, argued the cause for respondent. On the brief were James Jeffery Adams and Mitchell, Lang & Smith, Portland.
    Before Warden, Presiding Judge, and Van Hoomissen and Young, Judges.
    PER CURIAM
   PER CURIAM

Plaintiff appeals a judgment dismissing his complaint for failure to state ultimate facts sufficient to constitute a claim. ORCP 21A(8). We affirm.

Plaintiff sustained an injury, compensable under the Workers’ Compensation Act on September 21, 1982. Defendant is the agency paying benefits to plaintiff for his employer. After the Statute of Limitations had run, barring plaintiffs right to maintain an action against a third party for his injuries, plaintiff brought this action in counts alleging breach of a fiduciary duty and negligence for defendant’s failure to inform him of the existence of his third party claim. The issue is whether a workers’ compensation insurer has a duty to inform an injured worker of the existence of a potential third party claim under ORS 656.154.

Workers’ compensation law is purely statutory, and the rights and remedies provided by the Workers’ Compensation Act are exclusive. Nelson v. SAIF, 43 Or App 155, 602 P2d 341, rev den 288 Or 173 (1979), cert den 446 US 980 (1980). It imposes no duty on the insurer to inform an injured worker of the existence of a potential third party claim.

Affirmed.