Farmers Insurance v. Conner

In Farmers Ins. Co. v. Conner, 217 Or App 83, 174 P3d 1058 (2007), we held that the trial court erred in ruling that ORS 742.544 entitled Farmers Insurance Company (Farmers) to reimbursement of personal injury protection (PIP) benefits. We explained that the parties and the trial court had operated under the belief that ORS 742.544 provided a substantive entitlement to an insurer for the reimbursement of PIP benefits — a proposition that we rejected in Gaucin v. Farmers Ins. Co., 209 Or App 99, 146 P3d 370 (2006). Accordingly, we reversed the trial court judgment and remanded the case to the…