Workers' Compensation Board disputes data. This contains statistics for the Hearings Division, Board Review, and OR Court of Appeals. This data is a continuation of the disputes section of the biennial "Report on the Oregon Workers' Compensation System".
This dataset has the following 27 columns:
| Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Description | Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | year | calendar_date | 2014-01-01T00:00:00.000 2001-01-01T00:00:00.000 1999-01-01T00:00:00.000 2018-01-01T00:00:00.000 2017-01-01T00:00:00.000 view top 100 | |
| Hearings Div. Requests | hearings_div_requests | number | The count of requests for a hearing with the Hearings Division at WCB during the period. | 10177 10679 5838 7029 6975 view top 100 |
| Hearings Div. Orders | hearings_div_orders | number | The count of orders issued by the Hearings division of WCB during the period. | 8580 7759 7461 9531 11596 view top 100 |
| Hearings Div. Appeal Rates | hearings_div_appeal_rate_to_board_review | number | The percentage of the Hearing Division orders appealed to Board Review. | 3.0 11.5 12.5 4.5 4.6 view top 100 |
| Hearings Div Issue: PPD | hearings_div_orders_are_permanent_disability | number | Counts of Hearing orders dealing with permanent disability. | 76 602 255 484 574 view top 100 |
| Hearings Div Issue: Claim denial | hearings_div_orders_are_claim_denial | number | The count of Hearing orders dealing with Claim denial by the insurer. | 1754 1945 3440 2057 2018 view top 100 |
| Hearings Div Issue: Partial denial | hearings_div_orders_are_partial_denial | number | Count of Hearing orders dealing with the partial denial by the insurer of the claim. | 2613 2720 2512 2890 2873 view top 100 |
| Hearings Div Issue: Insurer penalty | hearings_div_orders_are_insurer_penalty | number | Counts of Hearing orders dealing with a penalty on the insurer set at a lower level of review. | 389 378 392 370 352 view top 100 |
| Hearings Div. Mediations completed | hearings_div_mediations_completed | number | The count of mediations completed by the Hearings division during the time period. Mediations between the involved parties are one way a dispute can be handled and are mediated by Administrative Law Judges of WCBs Hearings division. | 356 295 128 323 406 view top 100 |
| Hearings Div. Med.: Percent settled | hearings_div_percent_settled | number | The percentage of mediations where settlement was reached during the period. | 8900 9000 8400 8600 8960.0 view top 100 |
| Hearing Div. Med.: % resolved by DCS | hearing_div_mediations_of_settlements_resolved_by_dcs | number | Percentage of mediations that were settled by a Disputed Claim Settlement (DCS) during the period. | 8000.0 8200 8100 8700 8030.0 view top 100 |
| Hearings Div Med.: Disease issue | hearings_div_mediations_are_disease_issue | number | Count of mediations dealing with occupational disease during the period. | 115 120 122 130 147 view top 100 |
| Hearings Div Med.: Compensability issue | hearings_div_mediations_are_compensability_issue | number | The count of mediations dealing with compensability of the claim. | 271 294 341 274 326 view top 100 |
| Hearings Div Med.: Non-WCB issues | hearings_div_mediations_are_non_wcb_issues | number | The count of mediations dealing with non-WCB issues. These would include employment rights, WCD issues, torts, contracts, and other civil actions. | 113 126 108 120 116 view top 100 |
| Board Review Requests | board_review_requests | number | Count of request for Board Review during the period | 1381 1307 211 939 492 view top 100 |
| Board Review Orders | board_review_orders | number | Count of orders issued by the Board at Board Review during the period. | 1358 860 912 770 282 view top 100 |
| Board Review Appeal rates | board_review_appeal_rates_to_coa | number | The percentage of the Board Review orders appealed to the Oregon Court of Appeals. | 18.2 17.8 17.9 18.5 12.4 view top 100 |
| Board Own Motion orders | board_own_motion_orders | number | Count of the Board Own Motion reviews completed during the period. | 42 19 156 28 659 view top 100 |
| Court of Appeals Requests | court_of_appeals_requests | number | Count of request on WCB orders for Oregon Court of Appeals (COA) review during the period. The Oregon Court of Appeals is Oregon's intermediate appellate court. It receives every appeal or judicial review taken from Oregon's trial courts and administrative agencies including the Workers' Compensation Board. | 88 163 49 74 196 view top 100 |
| Court of Appeals Remands | court_of_appeals_remands | number | Count of remands passed down by the COA on WCB order disputes. A remand is where the higher court sends the lower courts order back to it for reconsideration or the taking of additional evidence. | 12 44 7 2 6 view top 100 |
| Court of Appeals Decisions | court_of_appeals_decisions | number | Count of decisions on WCB order disputes handed down by the COA. | 36 37 32 60 23 view top 100 |
| Median days DOI to Hearings Div. order | median_days_doi_to_order_hearings_div | number | The median length of time in days from Date of injury (DOI) to the WCB Hearings division order. | 659 548 595 720 644 view top 100 |
| Median days DOI to Board Review order | median_days_doi_to_order_board_review | number | The median length of time in days from the Date of Injury (DOI) to the WCB Board Review order. | 841 822 900 687 893 view top 100 |
| Median days DOI to Court of Appeals decision | median_days_doi_to_decision_court_of_appeals | number | Median length of time in days from the Date of Injury (DOI) to the Oregon Court of Appeals decision. | 1705 1444 1557 1866 1644 view top 100 |
| Median days Hearins Div. request to order | median_days_request_to_order_hearings_div | number | The median length of time in days from the request for hearing to the Hearings Division order. | 125 119 127 121 116 view top 100 |
| Median days Board Review request to order | median_days_request_to_order_board_review | number | The median length of time in days from the request for Board Review to the Board Review order. | 161 163 168 162 214 view top 100 |
| Median days Court of Appeals request to decision | median_days_request_to_decision_court_of_appeals | number | The median length of time in days from the COA review request dat to the COA decision. | 476 553 457 716 672 view top 100 |