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2015 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 14 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment
Chapter 656 - Workers’ Compensation
GENERAL PROVISIONS- Section 656.001 - Short title.
- Section 656.002
- Section 656.003 - Application of definitions to construction of chapter.
- Section 656.004
- Section 656.005 - Definitions.
- Section 656.006 - Effect on employers’ liability law.
- Section 656.008 - Extension of laws relating to workers’ compensation to federal lands and projects within state.
- Section 656.010 - Treatment by spiritual means.
- Section 656.012 - Findings and policy.
- Section 656.016
- Section 656.017 - Employer required to pay compensation and perform other duties; state not authorized to be direct responsibility employer.
- Section 656.018 - Effect of providing coverage; exclusive remedy.
- Section 656.019 - Civil negligence action for claim denied on basis of failure to meet major contributing cause standard; statute of limitations.
- Section 656.020 - Damage actions by workers against noncomplying employers; defenses outlawed.
- Section 656.021 - Person performing work under ORS chapter 701 as subject employer.
- Section 656.022
- Section 656.023 - Who are subject employers.
- Section 656.024
- Section 656.025 - Individuals engaged in commuter ridesharing not subject workers; conditions.
- Section 656.026
- Section 656.027 - Who are subject workers.
- Section 656.028
- Section 656.029 - Obligation of person awarding contract to provide coverage for workers under contract; exceptions; effect of failure to provide coverage.
- Section 656.030
- Section 656.031 - Coverage for municipal volunteer personnel.
- Section 656.032
- Section 656.033 - Coverage for participants in work experience or school directed professional training programs.
- Section 656.034
- Section 656.035 - Status of workers in separate occupations of employer.
- Section 656.036
- Section 656.037 - Exemption from coverage for persons engaged in certain real estate activities.
- Section 656.038
- Section 656.039 - Election of coverage for workers not subject to law; procedure; cancellation; election of coverage for home health care workers.
- Section 656.040
- Section 656.041 - City or county may elect to provide coverage for jail inmates.
- Section 656.042
- Section 656.043 - Governmental agency paying wages responsible for providing coverage.
- Section 656.044 - State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation may insure liability under Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act; procedure; cancellation.
- Section 656.046 - Coverage of persons in college work experience and professional education programs.
- Section 656.052 - Prohibition against employment without coverage; proposed order declaring noncomplying employer; effect of failure to comply.
- Section 656.054 - Claim of injured worker of noncomplying employer; procedure for disputing acceptance of claim; recovery of costs from noncomplying employer; restrictions.
- Section 656.056 - Subject employers must post notice of manner of compliance.
- Section 656.070 - Definitions for ORS 656.027, 656.070 and 656.075.
- Section 656.075 - Exemption from coverage for newspaper carriers; casualty insurance and other requirements.
- Section 656.082
- Section 656.084
- Section 656.086
- Section 656.088
- Section 656.090
- Section 656.120
- Section 656.122
- Section 656.124
- 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.
- Section 656.128 - Sole proprietors, limited liability company members, partners, independent contractors may elect coverage by insurer; cancellation.
- Section 656.130
- Section 656.132 - Coverage of minors.
- Section 656.135 - Coverage of deaf school work experience trainees.
- Section 656.138 - Coverage of apprentices, trainees participating in related instruction classes.
- Section 656.140 - Coverage of persons operating equipment for hire.
- Section 656.152
- Section 656.154 - Injury due to negligence or wrong of a person not in the same employ as injured worker; remedy against such person.
- Section 656.156 - Intentional injuries.
- Section 656.160 - Effect of incarceration on receipt of compensation.
- Section 656.170 - Validity of provisions of certain collective bargaining agreements; alternative dispute resolution systems; exclusive medical service provider lists; authority of director.
- Section 656.172 - Applicability of and criteria for establishing program under ORS 656.170.
- Section 656.174 - Rules.
- Section 656.204 - Death.
- Section 656.206 - Permanent total disability.
- Section 656.207
- Section 656.208 - Death during permanent total disability.
- Section 656.209 - Offsetting permanent total disability benefits against Social Security benefits.
- Section 656.210 - Temporary total disability; payment during medical treatment; election; rules.
- Section 656.211 - "Average weekly wage" defined.
- Section 656.212 - Temporary partial disability.
- Section 656.214 - Permanent partial disability.
- Section 656.215
- Section 656.216 - Permanent partial disability; method of payment; effect of prior receipt of temporary disability payments.
- Section 656.218 - Continuance of permanent partial disability payments to survivors; effect of death prior to final claim disposition.
- Section 656.220
- Section 656.222 - Compensation for additional accident.
- Section 656.224
- Section 656.225 - Compensability of certain preexisting conditions.
- Section 656.226 - Cohabitants and children entitled to compensation.
- Section 656.228 - Payments directly to beneficiary or custodian.
- Section 656.230 - Lump sum award payments.
- Section 656.232 - Payments to aliens residing outside of United States.
- Section 656.234 - Compensation not assignable nor to pass by operation of law; certain benefits subject to support obligations.
- 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 joinder as parties for responsibility determinations.
- Section 656.240 - Deduction of benefits from sick leave payments paid to employees.
- Section 656.242
- Section 656.244
- 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; review of disputed claims for medical services; rules.
- Section 656.246
- 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.
- Section 656.248 - Medical service fee schedules; basis of fees; application to service provided by managed care organization; resolution of fee disputes; rules.
- Section 656.250 - Limitation on compensability of physical therapist services.
- 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 worker.
- Section 656.254 - Medical report forms; penalties and other sanctions; procedure for declaring health care practitioner ineligible for workers’ compensation reimbursement.
- Section 656.256 - Considerations for rules regarding certain rural hospitals.
- Section 656.258 - Vocational assistance service payments.
- 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 resolution; penalties.
- 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.
- Section 656.263 - To whom notices sent under ORS 656.262, 656.265, 656.268 to 656.289, 656.295 to 656.325 and 656.382 to 656.388.
- Section 656.264 - Compensable injury, denied claim and other reports.
- Section 656.265 - Notice of accident from worker.
- Section 656.266 - Burden of proving compensability and nature and extent of disability.
- Section 656.267 - Claims for new and omitted medical conditions.
- 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; rules.
- Section 656.270
- Section 656.271
- Section 656.272
- Section 656.273 - Aggravation for worsened conditions; procedure; limitations; additional compensation.
- Section 656.274
- Section 656.275
- Section 656.276
- Section 656.277 - Request for reclassification of nondisabling claim; nondisabling claim procedure; attorney fees.
- Section 656.278 - Board has continuing authority to alter earlier action on claim; limitations.
- Section 656.280
- Section 656.282
- Section 656.283 - Hearing rights and procedure; rules; impeachment evidence; use of standards for evaluation of disability.
- Section 656.284
- Section 656.285 - Protection of witnesses at hearings.
- Section 656.287 - Use of vocational reports in determining loss of earning capacity at hearing; rules.
- Section 656.288
- Section 656.289 - Orders of Administrative Law Judge; review; disposition of claim when compensability disputed; approval of director required for reimbursement of certain expenditures.
- Section 656.290
- Section 656.291 - Expedited Claim Service; jurisdiction; procedure; representation; rules.
- Section 656.292
- Section 656.294
- Section 656.295 - Board review of Administrative Law Judge orders; application of standards for evaluation of disability.
- Section 656.298 - Judicial review of board orders; settlement during pendency of petition for review.
- Section 656.301
- Section 656.304 - When acceptance of compensation precludes hearing.
- Section 656.307 - Determination of issues regarding responsibility for compensation payment; mediation or arbitration procedure; rules.
- 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.
- Section 656.310 - Presumption concerning notice of injury and self-inflicted injuries; reports as evidence.
- Section 656.312
- Section 656.313 - Stay of compensation pending request for hearing or review; procedure for denial of claim for medical services; reimbursement.
- Section 656.314
- Section 656.316
- Section 656.318
- Section 656.319 - Time within which hearing must be requested.
- Section 656.320
- Section 656.322
- Section 656.324
- 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; penalties.
- Section 656.326
- Section 656.327 - Review of medical treatment of worker; findings; review; costs.
- Section 656.328 - List of authorized providers and standards of professional conduct for providers of independent medical examinations; exclusion; complaints; rules.
- Section 656.329
- Section 656.330
- Section 656.331 - Contact, medical examination of worker represented by attorney prohibited without written notice; rules.
- Section 656.335
- Section 656.340 - Vocational assistance procedure; eligibility criteria; service providers; resolution of vocational assistance disputes; rules.
- Section 656.360 - Confidentiality of worker medical and vocational claim records.
- Section 656.362 - Liability for disclosure of worker medical and vocational claim records.
- Section 656.382 - Penalties and attorney fees payable by insurer or employer in processing claim.
- Section 656.383 - Attorney fees in cases prior to decision or after request for hearing.
- Section 656.384
- Section 656.385 - Attorney fees in cases regarding certain medical service or vocational rehabilitation matters; rules; limitation; penalties.
- Section 656.386 - Recovery of attorney fees, expenses and costs in appeal on denied claim; attorney fees in other cases.
- Section 656.388 - Approval of attorney fees required; lien for fees; fee schedule; adjustment; report of legal service costs.
- Section 656.390 - Frivolous appeals, hearing requests or motions; expenses and attorney fee.
- Section 656.401
- Section 656.402
- Section 656.403 - Obligations of self-insured employer.
- Section 656.404
- Section 656.405
- Section 656.406
- Section 656.407 - Qualifications of insured employers.
- Section 656.408
- Section 656.409
- Section 656.410
- Section 656.411
- Section 656.412
- Section 656.413
- Section 656.414
- Section 656.415
- Section 656.416
- Section 656.417
- Section 656.418
- Section 656.419 - Workers’ compensation insurance contracts.
- Section 656.420
- Section 656.421
- Section 656.422
- Section 656.423 - Cancellation of coverage by employer; notice required.
- Section 656.424
- Section 656.425
- Section 656.426
- Section 656.427 - Termination of workers’ compensation insurance contract or surety bond liability by insurer.
- Section 656.428
- Section 656.429
- Section 656.430 - Certification of self-insured employer; employer groups; insurance policy requirements; revocation of certification; rules.
- Section 656.431
- Section 656.432
- Section 656.434 - Certification effective until canceled or revoked; revocation of certificate.
- Section 656.440 - Notice of certificate revocation; appeal; effective date.
- Section 656.441 - Advancement of funds from Workers’ Benefit Fund for compensation due workers insured by certain decertified self-insured employer groups.
- Section 656.442
- Section 656.443 - Procedure upon default by employer or self-insured employer group.
- Section 656.444
- Section 656.445 - Advancement of funds from Workers’ Benefit Fund for compensation due workers insured by insurer in default; limitations; rules.
- Section 656.446
- Section 656.447 - Sanctions against insurer for failure to comply with contracts, orders or rules.
- Section 656.451
- Section 656.452
- Section 656.454
- Section 656.455 - Self-insured employers required to keep records of compensation claims; location and inspection; expenses of audits and inspections; rules.
- Section 656.456
- Section 656.458
- Section 656.460
- Section 656.462
- Section 656.464
- Section 656.466
- Section 656.468
- Section 656.470
- Section 656.472
- Section 656.474
- Section 656.502 - "Fiscal year" defined.
- Section 656.504 - Rates, charges, fees and reports by employers insured by State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation.
- Section 656.505 - Estimate of payroll when employer fails to file payroll report; demand for and recovery of premiums and assessments.
- Section 656.506 - Assessments for programs; setting assessment amount; determination by director of benefit level.
- Section 656.507
- Section 656.508 - Authority to fix premium rates for employers.
- Section 656.509
- Section 656.510
- Section 656.512
- Section 656.514
- Section 656.516
- Section 656.518
- Section 656.520
- Section 656.522
- Section 656.524
- Section 656.526 - Distribution of dividends from surplus in Industrial Accident Fund.
- Section 656.530
- Section 656.532
- Section 656.535
- Section 656.536 - Premium charges for coverage of reforestation cooperative workers based on prevailing wage; manner of determining prevailing wage.
- Section 656.538
- Section 656.552 - Deposit of cash, bond or letter of credit to secure payment of employer’s premiums.
- Section 656.554 - Injunction against employer failing to comply with deposit requirements.
- Section 656.556 - Liability of person letting a contract for amounts due from contractor.
- Section 656.558
- Section 656.560 - Default in payment of premiums, fees, assessments or deposit; remedies.
- Section 656.562 - Moneys due Industrial Accident Fund as preferred claims; moneys due department as taxes due state.
- 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.
- Section 656.566 - Lien on property of employer for amounts due.
- Section 656.576 - "Paying agency" defined.
- Section 656.578 - Workers’ election whether to sue third person or noncomplying employer for damages.
- Section 656.580 - Payment of compensation notwithstanding cause of action for damages; lien on cause of action for compensation paid.
- Section 656.582
- Section 656.583 - Paying agency may compel election and prompt action.
- Section 656.584
- Section 656.586
- Section 656.587 - Paying agency must join in any compromise.
- Section 656.588
- Section 656.590
- Section 656.591 - Election not to bring action operates as assignment of cause of action.
- Section 656.593 - Procedure when worker elects to bring action; release of liability and lien of paying agency in certain cases.
- Section 656.595 - Precedence of cause of action; compensation paid or payable not to be an issue.
- Section 656.596 - Damage recovery as offset against compensation; recovery procedure; notice to paying agent.
- Section 656.597
- Section 656.602 - Disbursement procedures.
- Section 656.604
- Section 656.605 - Workers’ Benefit Fund; uses and limitations.
- Section 656.612 - Assessments for department activities; amount; collection procedure.
- Section 656.614 - Self-Insured Employer Adjustment Reserve; Self-Insured Employer Group Adjustment Reserve.
- Section 656.616
- Section 656.618
- Section 656.620
- Section 656.622 - Reemployment Assistance Program; claim data not to be used for insurance rating; rules.
- Section 656.624
- Section 656.625 - Reopened Claims Program; rules.
- Section 656.628 - Workers with Disabilities Program; use of funds; conditions and limitations; rules.
- Section 656.630 - Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences funding; report of activities.
- Section 656.632 - Industrial Accident Fund.
- Section 656.634 - Trust fund status of Industrial Accident Fund.
- Section 656.635 - Reserve accounts in Industrial Accident Fund.
- Section 656.636 - Reserves in Industrial Accident Fund for awards for permanent disability or death.
- Section 656.637
- Section 656.638
- Section 656.640 - Creation of reserves.
- Section 656.642 - Emergency Fund.
- Section 656.644 - Petty cash funds.
- Section 656.646
- Section 656.648
- Section 656.702 - Disclosure of records of corporation, department and insurers.
- 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.
- Section 656.708 - Hearings Division; duties.
- Section 656.709 - Ombudsman for injured workers; ombudsman for small business; duties.
- Section 656.710
- Section 656.712 - Workers’ Compensation Board; members; qualifications; chairperson; confirmation; term; vacancies.
- Section 656.714 - Removal of board member.
- Section 656.716 - Board members not to engage in political or business activity that interferes with duties as board member; oath and bond required.
- Section 656.718 - Chairperson; quorum; panels.
- Section 656.720 - Prosecution and defense of actions by Attorney General and district attorneys.
- Section 656.722 - Authority to employ subordinates.
- Section 656.724 - Administrative Law Judges; appointment; qualifications; term; performance survey; removal procedure.
- Section 656.725 - Duties and status of Administrative Law Judges.
- Section 656.726 - Duties and powers to carry out workers’ compensation and occupational safety laws; rules.
- Section 656.727 - Rules for administration of benefit offset.
- Section 656.728
- Section 656.729
- Section 656.730 - Assigned risk plan.
- Section 656.732 - Power to compel obedience to subpoenas and punish for misconduct.
- Section 656.734
- 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.
- Section 656.740 - Review of proposed order declaring noncomplying employer or nonsubjectivity determination; review of proposed assessment or civil penalty; insurer as party; hearing.
- Section 656.745 - Civil penalty for inducing failure to report claims; failure to pay assessments; failure to comply with statutes, rules or orders; amount; procedure.
- Section 656.750 - Civil penalty for failure to maintain records of compensation claims; amount; disposition of funds.
- Section 656.751 - State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation created; board; members’ qualifications; terms; compensation; expenses; function; report.
- Section 656.752 - State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation; purpose and functions.
- Section 656.753 - State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation exempt from certain financial administration laws; contracts with state agencies for services.
- Section 656.754 - Manager; appointment; functions.
- Section 656.756
- 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.
- Section 656.760
- Section 656.772 - Annual audit of State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation by Secretary of State; scope of review; report of audit.
- Section 656.774 - Annual report by State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation to Secretary of State; contents.
- Section 656.776 - Notice to Secretary of State regarding action on audit report.
- Section 656.780 - Certification and training of claims examiners; records of certification and training of examiners; department inspection of records; penalties; rules.
- Section 656.790 - Workers’ Compensation Management-Labor Advisory Committee; membership; duties; expenses.
- Section 656.792
- Section 656.794 - Advisory committee on medical care; rules.
- Section 656.795 - Informational materials for nurse practitioners.
- Section 656.796
- Section 656.797 - Certification by nurse practitioner of review of required materials.
- Section 656.798 - Duty of insurer, self-insured employer and self-insured employer group to provide information to director.
- Section 656.799 - Informational materials for other health care professionals; certification of review of materials.
- Section 656.802 - Occupational disease; mental disorder; proof.
- Section 656.804 - Occupational disease as an injury under Workers’ Compensation Law.
- Section 656.806
- Section 656.807 - Time for filing of claims for occupational disease; procedure.
- Section 656.808
- Section 656.810
- Section 656.812
- Section 656.814
- Section 656.816
- Section 656.818
- Section 656.820
- Section 656.822
- Section 656.824
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