SAIF Resumes Practice of Paying Safety Performance Dividend

Employers insured with Oregon's state-chartered workers' compensation insurer may be eligible for two dividends this year: one tied to safety performance, another based on premium, SAIF announced Wednesday. SAIF will distribute a $20 million performance dividend to policyholders based on safety results. As in previous years, SAIF will also distribute $120 million in primary dividend to employers based on their premium.  SAIF rewarded safety performance through a dividend in 2000, but it has not done so since. About 95% of SAIF's policyholders ar...