Oregon claimants' attorneys say efforts to bring their pay more in line with what workers’ compensation defense attorneys are paid haven’t worked, and the Workers’ Compensation Board should give them a raise when it reviews attorney fee regulations later this year.
Gov. Kate Brown in 2015 signed House Bill 2764, which authorized new payments for claimants’ attorneys and raised the statutory cap on claimants’ attorney fees, to $4,000 from $3,000. The bill also directed the WCB to review attorney fees every two years to ensure that injured worker...
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