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OR Rev Stat § 656.562 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.562 - Moneys due Industrial Accident Fund as preferred claims; moneys due department as taxes due state.

(1) All premiums, fees, assessments, interest charges, penalties or amounts due the Industrial Accident Fund from any employer under this chapter and all judgments recovered by the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation against any employer under this chapter shall be deemed preferred to all general claims in all bankruptcy proceedings, trustee proceedings, proceedings for the administration of estates and receiverships involving the employer liable therefor or the property of such employer. (2) All assessments, interest charges, penalties or amounts due the Department of Consumer and Business Services shall be considered taxes due the State of Oregon. [Amended by 1979 c.839 §11; 1981 c.854 §40]
OR Rev Stat § 656.564 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|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.

(1) A lien hereby is created in favor of the insurer upon all real property within this state and any structure or improvement thereon and upon any mine, lode, deposit, mining claim, or any road, tramway, trail, flume, ditch, pipeline, building, or other structure or equipment on or pertaining thereto, upon which labor is performed by the workers of any employer subject to this chapter in a sum equal to the amount at any time due from such employer to the insurer on account of labor performed thereon by the workers of such employer, together with interest and penalty. (2) The insurer shall also have a lien on all lumber, sawlogs, spars, piles, ties or other timber, and upon all other manufactured articles of whatsoever kind or nature, and upon all machinery, tools and equipment of the employer used in connection with the employment on which contributions, premiums or assessments are due, in a sum equal to the amount at any time due from any employer subject to this chapter on account of labor performed by the workers of such employer, together with interest and penalty. (3) In order to avail itself of the lien created by this section, the insurer shall, within 60 days after the employer is in default, as provided in ORS 656.560, file with the county clerk of the county within which such property is then situated a statement in writing describing the property upon which a lien is claimed and stating the amount of the lien claimed by the insurer. If a lien is claimed on real property not then owned by the employer, the statement must be filed within 60 days from the completion of the work. (4) The insurer shall, within six months from the filing of the statement, commence a suit to cause such lien to be foreclosed in the manner provided by law for the foreclosure of other liens on real or personal property. (5) The lien created by this section shall be prior to all other liens and encumbrances, except labor liens and liens for taxes and other amounts due the State of Oregon. [Amended by 1979 c.815 §6; 1981 c.535 §40]
OR Rev Stat § 656.566 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.566 - Lien on property of employer for amounts due.

(1) If any employer liable for the payment of premiums, fees and assessments to the Industrial Accident Fund is placed in default as provided by ORS 656.560, the amount due the fund, including interest and penalty, is a lien in favor of the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation upon all property, whether real or personal, belonging to such employer. (2) The lien attaches upon the filing of a notice of claim of lien with the county clerk of the county in which the property is located. The notice of lien claim shall contain a true statement of the demand, after deducting all just credits and offsets, and the default of such employer. The county clerk shall record the claim of lien in the County Clerk Lien Record and shall receive the fee provided in ORS 205.320. (3) The employer against whose property the lien has been filed may cause the property to be released by filing with the county clerk of the county wherein the lien is recorded a bond in a sum double the amount claimed in the lien, executed by a surety company licensed to do business in Oregon or by two freeholders of this state, having the qualifications of bail upon arrest, to be approved by the circuit judge of the district in which the lien is filed, or in the event of absence from the county in which the lien is filed, then by the county judge of said county, running to the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation and conditioned for the payment of all damages, costs, charges and disbursements that may be recovered by the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation against the employer or that may be found to be a lien upon or against the property of such employer. The clerk shall record evidence that the bond is substituted in lieu of the property of the employer and that the lien on the property is forever released and discharged. If the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation establishes the validity of its lien by a suit to foreclose the lien, it shall be entitled to judgment against the sureties upon the bond. (4) The lien created by this section may be foreclosed by a suit in the circuit court in the manner provided by law for the foreclosure of other liens on real or personal property. Unless a suit is instituted by the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation to foreclose such lien within two years from the date of filing, the lien shall expire. (5) The lien created by this section is prior to all liens and encumbrances recorded subsequent to the filing of notice of claim of lien, except taxes and labor liens. [Amended by 1981 c.854 §41; 2001 c.577 §5; 2003 c.576 §531]
OR Rev Stat § 656.576 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.576 - "Paying agency" defined.

As used in ORS 656.578 to 656.595, "paying agency" means the self-insured employer or insurer paying benefits to the worker or beneficiaries. [1965 c.285 §44a; 1981 c.854 §42]
OR Rev Stat § 656.578 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.578 - Workers’ election whether to sue third person or noncomplying employer for damages.

If a worker of a noncomplying employer receives a compensable injury in the course of employment, or if a worker receives a compensable injury due to the negligence or wrong of a third person (other than those exempt from liability under ORS 656.018), entitling the worker under ORS 656.154 to seek a remedy against such third person, such worker or, if death results from the injury, the other beneficiaries shall elect whether to recover damages from such employer or third person. If a worker leaves beneficiaries who are minors, the right of election shall be exercised by their surviving parent, if any; otherwise, such election shall be exercised by the guardian. [Formerly 656.312]
OR Rev Stat § 656.580 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.580 - Payment of compensation notwithstanding cause of action for damages; lien on cause of action for compensation paid.

(1) The worker or beneficiaries of the worker, as the case may be, shall be paid the benefits provided by this chapter in the same manner and to the same extent as if no right of action existed against the employer or third party, until damages are recovered from such employer or third party. (2) The paying agency has a lien against the cause of action as provided by ORS 656.591 or 656.593, which lien shall be preferred to all claims except the cost of recovering such damages. [Formerly 656.314]
OR Rev Stat § 656.582 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.582

[Renumbered 656.384]
OR Rev Stat § 656.583 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.583 - Paying agency may compel election and prompt action.

(1) The paying agency may require the worker or other beneficiaries or the legal representative of a deceased worker to exercise the right of election provided in ORS 656.578 by serving a written demand by registered or certified mail or by personal service upon such worker, beneficiaries or legal representative. (2) Unless such election is made within 60 days from the receipt or service of such demand and unless, after making such election, an action against such third person is instituted within such time as is granted by the paying agency, the worker, beneficiaries or legal representative is deemed to have assigned the cause of action to the paying agency. The paying agency shall allow the worker, the beneficiaries or legal representative of the worker at least 90 days from the making of such election to institute such action. In any case where an insurer of a third person is also the insurer of the employer, notice of this fact must be given in writing by the insurer to the injured worker and to the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services within 10 days after the occurrence of any accident which may result in the assertion of the claim against the third person by the injured worker. [Formerly 656.316; 1981 c.854 §43]
OR Rev Stat § 656.584 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.584

[Amended by 1965 c.285 §68d; renumbered 656.624]
OR Rev Stat § 656.586 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.586

[Renumbered 656.720]
OR Rev Stat § 656.587 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.587 - Paying agency must join in any compromise.

Any compromise by the worker or other beneficiaries or the legal representative of the deceased worker of any right of action against an employer or third party is void unless made with the written approval of the paying agency or, in the event of a dispute between the parties, by order of the Workers’ Compensation Board. [Formerly 656.318; 1990 c.2 §34]
OR Rev Stat § 656.588 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.588

[Amended by 1957 c.558 §1; 1965 c.285 §42a; renumbered 656.386]
OR Rev Stat § 656.590 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.590

[Amended by 1965 c.285 §42b; renumbered 656.388]
OR Rev Stat § 656.591 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.591 - Election not to bring action operates as assignment of cause of action; repayments to department by paying agency.

(1) An election made pursuant to ORS 656.578 not to proceed against an employer or third person operates as an assignment to the paying agency of the cause of action, if any, of a worker or the beneficiaries or legal representative of a deceased worker against the employer or third person, and the paying agency may bring action against the employer or third person in the name of the worker or other beneficiaries. (2) Any sum the paying agency recovers in excess of the expenses the paying agency incurred in making the recovery and the amount the paying agency expended for compensation, first aid or other medical, surgical or hospital service, together with the present value of the monthly payments of compensation to which the worker or other beneficiaries may be entitled under this chapter, must be paid to the worker or other beneficiaries. (3) A paying agency shall repay the Department of Consumer and Business Services for any expenditures from the Consumer and Business Services Fund, the Self-Insured Employer Adjustment Reserve, the Self-Insured Employer Group Adjustment Reserve or the Workers’ Benefit Fund that the department makes, together with the present value of any reasonably expected future expenditures from the funds or reserves that the department may make, to reimburse the paying agency for the paying agency’s costs and to compensate or pay other costs of a worker’s claim because of a self-insured employer’s or self-insured employer group’s insolvency, default or decertification. [Formerly 656.320; 2017 c.69 §2]
OR Rev Stat § 656.595 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.595 - Precedence of cause of action; compensation paid or payable not to be an issue.

(1) Any action brought against a third party or employer, as provided in this chapter, shall have precedence over all other civil cases. (2) In any third party action brought pursuant to this chapter, the fact that the injured worker or the beneficiaries of the injured worker are entitled to or have received benefits under this chapter shall not be pleaded or admissible in evidence. (3) A challenge of the right to bring such third party action shall be made by supplemental pleadings only and such challenge shall be determined by the court as a matter of law. [Formerly 656.324]
OR Rev Stat § 656.596 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.596 - Damage recovery as offset against compensation; recovery procedure; notice to paying agency.

(1) If no workers’ compensation claim has been filed or accepted at the time a worker or the beneficiaries of a worker recover damages from a third person or noncomplying employer pursuant to ORS 656.576 to 656.596, the amount of the damages shall constitute an offset against compensation due the worker or beneficiaries of the worker for the injuries for which the recovery is made to the extent of any lien that would have been authorized by ORS 656.576 to 656.596 if a workers’ compensation claim had been filed and accepted at the time of recovery of damages. (2) The offset created by subsection (1) of this section shall be recoverable from compensation payable to the worker, the worker’s beneficiaries and the worker’s attorney. No compensation payments shall be made to the worker, the worker’s beneficiaries or the worker’s attorney until the offset has been fully recovered. (3) The worker or the beneficiaries of the worker shall notify the paying agency or potential paying agency of the amount of any damages recovered from a third person or noncomplying employer at the time of recovery or when the worker or the beneficiaries of a worker file a workers’ compensation claim that is subject to ORS 656.576 to 656.596. [1993 c.644 §2; 1995 c.332 §48]
OR Rev Stat § 656.602 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.602 - Disbursement procedures.

All disbursements for administrative expenses from the Industrial Accident Fund, except as provided by ORS 656.642, shall be made only upon warrants drawn by the Oregon Department of Administrative Services upon vouchers duly approved by the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation. [Formerly 656.472; 1977 c.804 §17; 1983 c.740 §243; 1985 c.212 §9; 1987 c.373 §36]
OR Rev Stat § 656.612 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.612 - Assessments for department activities; amount; collection procedure.

(1) The Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services shall impose and collect assessments from all insurers, self-insured employers and self-insured employer groups in an amount sufficient to pay the expenses of the Department of Consumer and Business Services under this chapter and ORS chapter 654 and under the Insurance Code. The assessments shall be paid in the manner and at intervals as the director may direct and when collected shall be deposited in the Consumer and Business Services Fund. The receipts in the account are continuously appropriated to the department for the purpose described in this subsection. (2) The assessments shall be levied against the insurers’ direct earned premium and the direct earned premium self-insured employers and self-insured employer groups would have paid had they been insured employers. (3) The director may impose and collect an additional assessment from self-insured employer groups in an amount sufficient to pay the additional expenses involved in administering the group self-insured program. (4) The director may establish a minimum assessment applicable to all insurers, self-insured employers and self-insured employer groups and shall establish the time, manner and method of imposing and collecting assessments subject to applicable budgeting and fiscal laws. (5) The assessments required under this section shall be developed pursuant to ORS 183.310 to 183.410 and in such a manner that will reasonably and substantially accomplish the objective of subsection (2) of this section at the least possible administrative cost to everyone. (6) Assessments developed by the department under this section shall be reported to the Joint Committee on Ways and Means or, during the interim between sessions of the Legislative Assembly, to the Emergency Board or to the Joint Interim Committee on Ways and Means. [1965 c.285 §69a; 1973 c.353 §2; 1975 c.556 §45; 1977 c.804 §18; 1979 c.839 §13; 1981 c.535 §41; 1981 c.854 §44; 1985 c.506 §1; 1987 c.373 §37; 1987 c.884 §22; 1989 c.413 §21; 1990 c.2 §35; 1999 c.409 §1; 2012 c.107 §17]
OR Rev Stat § 656.614 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.614 - Self-Insured Employer Adjustment Reserve; Self-Insured Employer Group Adjustment Reserve.

(1) The Self-Insured Employer Adjustment Reserve and the Self-Insured Employer Group Adjustment Reserve shall be established within the Consumer and Business Services Fund. These reserves shall be used to pay the claims of workers of self-insured employers or of employers that are members of a self-insured employer group when the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services finds that the worker cannot obtain payment from the employer or self-insured employer group responsible for payment of the claim because of insolvency, default or decertification of the employer, the self-insured employer group or the excess insurer of the employer or group, and exhaustion of the excess insurance and security deposited to secure such payment. (2) If at any time the director finds that the amount of moneys in the reserves is not sufficient to carry out the purposes stated in subsection (1) of this section, the director may impose and collect from self-insured employers and self-insured employer groups assessments sufficient to raise the amount of moneys in the reserves to the point where it can carry out such purposes. If at any time the director finds that there is a surplus in the reserves beyond an amount that can reasonably be anticipated as sufficient to carry out the purposes stated in subsection (1) of this section, the director may transfer the surplus to the Consumer and Business Services Fund and reduce the total amount of assessment by the amount so transferred. (3) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, the director may impose a differential assessment between the two employers adjustment reserves in order to collect sufficient moneys in the reserves as provided in subsection (2) of this section. (4) Assessments imposed under this section shall be paid to the director in the manner and at such times as the director may direct. (5) Assessments paid by self-insured employer groups shall be deposited in the Consumer and Business Services Fund in separate accounts for public employers that are members of a self-insured employer group and for private employers that are members of a self-insured employer group. Moneys deposited in each account may be used only to pay claims expenses of employees of each category of self-insured employer group. (6) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, the director may use the reserves to assure timely payment of compensation pending payment from the excess insurance or security deposit. The director shall recover these costs from the excess insurance or the security deposit, up to their limits. [1965 c.285 §67a; 1975 c.556 §46; 1979 c.845 §3; 1981 c.535 §42; 1983 c.816 §12; 2014 c.48 §8]
OR Rev Stat § 656.625 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.625 - Reopened Claims Program; rules.

(1) There is established a Reopened Claims Program for the purpose of reimbursing the additional amounts of compensation payable to injured workers that results from any award made by the Workers’ Compensation Board or voluntary claim reopening pursuant to ORS 656.278 after January 1, 1988. (2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any reimbursement from the Workers’ Benefit Fund for the purposes of the Reopened Claims Program shall be in such amounts payable to an injured worker pursuant to ORS 656.278 and only to the extent that moneys are available in the fund as determined by the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services. (3) The director, by rule, shall prescribe the form and manner of requesting reimbursement under this section, the amount payable and such other matters as may be necessary for the administration of this section. [1987 c.884 §39; 1995 c.332 §49a; 1995 c.641 §22; 2001 c.865 §11a]
OR Rev Stat § 656.630 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment|Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation|Section 656.630 - Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences funding; report of activities.

(1) There is transferred to and continuously appropriated to the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences of the Oregon Health and Science University, the following amounts from the following sources: (a) The amount of revenue equivalent to one-sixteenth of one cent of the money deductible from workers’ wages pursuant to ORS 656.506 (2). (b) An amount equal to the amount raised by paragraph (a) of this subsection from those assessments made pursuant to ORS 656.612 (2). (2) The moneys referred to in subsection (1) of this section may only be used for paying the expenses of the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences. If the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services determines adequate funds are available and the director reduces or suspends for a period of time the assessments made pursuant to ORS 656.506 (2) and 656.612 (2), the reduction or suspension of the assessments does not terminate the transfers to the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences authorized in subsection (1) of this section. (3) Annually, the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences shall file a report with the Oregon Health and Science University, with a copy to the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services, describing the activities in sufficient detail for which moneys received under this section during the year have been obligated or expended. [1993 c.760 §6; 1995 c.162 §85; 1995 c.641 §11a; 2013 c.111 §4]