Court Opinion

ID: 9468873
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 02:25:41.852784+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:41:05.559112
License: Public Domain

FLETCHER, Circuit Judge,
concurring in the result:
I agree with the majority’s conclusion that Black has failed to prove that his settlement was not a substitute for periodic payments. I would, however, leave open the question of what workers’ compensation payments, under Oregon law, are payable as a lump sum. The question was not argued to or decided by the district court. Accordingly, I would not decide it here. I nonetheless concur in the result since Black has not sustained the burden imposed on the claimant to show what part of a workers’ compensation settlement is not a substitute for periodic payments. 20 C.F.R. § 404.408(d) (1980).