Fraud Watch Fraud in workers’ compensation brings up concerns such as exaggerated injuries, provider schemes, premium manipulation, or claim-related dishonesty. A growing scam targeting Spanish-speaking injured workers now asks the industry to widen that lens. In these cases, criminals […]

Case File Because a bankruptcy court granted a worker's trustee's motion to reopen his bankruptcy case specifically to administer his negligence action against his employer as an asset, and the worker's disclosure of the negligence […]

What Do You Think? Employees injured at work normally cannot sue a company for negligence and obtain money damages. The “exclusive remedy rule” limits them to workers’ compensation benefits. But there is an exception if […]

Compliance Corner In Oregon, if an MCO receives a complaint or dispute that is not included in the MCO dispute resolution process, the MCO must, within seven days from the date of receiving the complaint, […]

What Do You Think? To obtain compensation for an occupational disease, an employee has to show that she had the condition and that her job caused it. A case involving an emergency dispatcher highlights the […]

Case File An immunity provision under Oregon law that applied to workers' compensation coverage ran afoul of the state's constitution because it left workers without a counterbalance hefty enough to offset the common-law remedy taken […]

Compliance Corner The headlines seem to report ever-growing amounts of workplace violence in health care settings across the country, and states are taking action to keep workers safe. For example, as Simply Research subscribers know, […]

State Snapshot BASIC RULE In Oregon, the sole remedy for an employee who suffers injury, death, or an occupational disease in the course and scope of employment is workers’ compensation. ORS 656.018. This means that […]