This is basic data on the Oregon Return to Work (RTW) programs statistics. This view covers the Vocational Assistance Program (Voc) eligibility determinations.

Insurers determine eligibility or ineligibility for vocational assistance for workers with permanent partial disability who do not return to permanent work with the employer at injury. In general, workers are eligible for vocational assistance if they have a substantial handicap that prevents re-employment in any job that pays at least 80 percent of the job-at-injury wages.

Oregon Workers' Compensation record-level details for accepted disabling claims from 2013 through 2017.

Insurance tables for WC System Report

Workers’ compensation indemnity benefits are cash benefits paid to injured workers. These benefits include benefits for temporary disability (time loss), permanent partial disability, permanent total disability, and death. Statute sets eligibility criteria and the rates at which insurers pay these benefits. In the case of death from work-related causes, indemnity benefits are paid to survivors. Indemnity benefits also include vocational assistance benefits paid on behalf of severely disabled workers to get them back to work.

Indemnity benefits also include settlements between workers and insurers. Claim disposition agreements (CDAs) and disputed claim settlements (DCSs) are the two forms of settlements.

The Workers' Benefit Fund ( WBF)provides funds for programs that assist employers and injured workers. Assessment revenues, not insurance premiums, finance these programs. Employers and workers each pay half the assessment. The two major programs are the Retroactive Program and the Re-employment Assistance Program.

The Retroactive Program pays cost-of-living increases to workers or their beneficiaries based on changes in average wages. The two major benefits paid are for permanent total disability and death. Since at least 1995, the majority of PTD and death benefits have been paid from this program.

The Re-employment Assistance Program provides incentives for injured workers to return to work, through the Employer-at-Injury Program (EAIP) and the Preferred Worker Program (PWP). Benefits common to both are wage subsidies, worksite modifications, and employment purchases.

Workers who have not been released to regular work but can return to transitional jobs are eligible for the EAIP. Use of this program allows many claims to remain nondisabling even though the workers have medical restrictions.

Workers who have a permanent disability and are unable to return to regular work are eligible for the PWP benefits, which may be initiated by either the worker or the employer. In addition, claim cost reimbursement is paid for preferred workers who suffer new injuries.

The data in this table include estimated figures and are subject to revision. All dollars are shown in millions of dollars.

Oregon workers' compensation claims counts. Where available, the data is provided since 1968, the year Oregon's modern workers' compensation system began. The data is presented in the Department of Consumer and Business Services report at https://www.oregon.gov/dcbs/reports/compensation/Pages/index.aspx. The attached pdf provides definitions of the data.

This is basic data on the Oregon Return to Work (RTW) programs statistics. This view shows Preferred Worker Program (PWP), eligibility. It shows the number of workers eligible for the PWP and the numbers who have used the program. Workers may not use the program for several years, so the numbers who have used the program are incomplete for the most recent years.

Oregon workers' compensation data. The data is presented in the Department of Consumer and Business Services report at https://www.oregon.gov/dcbs/reports/compensation/Pages/index.aspx.

Defense legal costs are insurers’ and self-insured employers’ costs associated with defending themselves against claims or benefits believed to be unwarranted. They are the actual amounts paid in total. The fees reported are the total by firm and not on a per claim basis. These data are collected by DCBS in an annual survey of the workers’ compensation insurers.
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Oregon workers' compensation data attorney fees paid. The data is presented in the Department of Consumer and Business Services report at https://www.oregon.gov/dcbs/reports/compensation/Pages/index.aspx. The attached pdf provides definitions of the data.

Out-of-compensation fees are a portion of the claimant’s award that is paid to the claimant’s attorney.

Workers’ compensation indemnity benefits are cash benefits paid to injured workers. These benefits include benefits for temporary disability (time loss), permanent partial disability, permanent total disability, and death. Indemnity benefits also include vocational assistance benefits paid on behalf of severely disabled workers to get them back to work. The data in this table show the vocational assistance benefits paid by the date of the claim resolution.

The data in this table include estimated figures and are subject to revision. All dollars are shown in millions of dollars.

Workers' Compensation Division (WCD) workers' compensation claim disputes. Covers Reconsideration, Medical disputes, and Vocational assistance disputes. These represent the first level of WC claim disputes. Data for the Oregon workers' compensation report