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Trial lawyers and insurers spar over lifting $1,500 cap on workers’ comp litigation costs
Summary
The House Committee on Labor and Workplace Standards heard testimony Feb. 12 on House Bill 2799, which would lift a $1,500 cap on reimbursable litigation costs in workers’ compensation disputes for prevailing claimants.
The House Committee on Labor and Workplace Standards took testimony Feb. 12 on House Bill 2799, which would remove a current $1,500 cap on “reasonable litigation costs, expenses and attorney fees” that a prevailing claimant may recover in some workers’ compensation disputes.
Giovanna Patrick of the Oregon Trial Lawyers Association (OTLA) testified that the current $1,500 cap — set two decades ago — often leaves injured workers unable to pay for medical opinions and other evidence necessary to prove entitlement to benefits. OTLA said many medical reports and physicians’ time now cost well above the statutory…
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