Government relations

Contact us:

Ivo Trummer

Government Relations Director

Elaine Schooler

Assistant General Counsel

About SAIF

SAIF is Oregon’s not-for-profit workers' compensation insurance company. For more than 100 years, we’ve been taking care of injured workers, helping people get back to work, and striving to make Oregon the safest and healthiest place to work.

Who we are:

A mission-driven, independent public corporation, SAIF is governed by a board of directors appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Oregon State Senate. SAIF receives no state funding. All revenue comes from policyholder premiums and investment returns.

We are committed to our mission of serving Oregon’s workers and employers by making workers’ compensation widely available, affordable, and accessible, and by providing extraordinary service. We have nearly 1,200 employees across six regional offices and working remotely throughout the state serving our customers.

With more than 54,000 policyholders, SAIF is the largest workers’ compensation provider in Oregon. We serve employers of all sizes, from small businesses that have only one employee to large companies with tens of thousands of employees.

We also handle more claims than any other workers’ comp carrier in Oregon and our service levels are consistently higher than competitors.

Our vision is to make Oregon the safest and healthiest place to work. With 70 safety and health experts who help employers create safer workplaces, SAIF has built the largest team of workplace safety professionals of any insurance carrier in Oregon.

The system we operate in:

Oregon is recognized as having one of the best workers’ compensation systems in the country, but it wasn’t always this way.

A system in balance

The work we do:

Anyone—not just policyholders—can access SAIF’s free safety workshops and online resources, designed to create safer workplaces, reduce employee injuries and claims, and better control costs.