To: All insurers and self insurers writing or maintaining workers' compensation coverage in the State of Montana on or after July 1, 1991.

Please take notice that pursuant to the common fund doctrine and the decision of the Montana Supreme Court in Rausch, et al. v. State Compensation Insurance Fund, 2002 MT 203, the attorneys in the above-entitled matter claim a lien with regard to impairment awards paid to permanently totally disabled claimants in accordance with the Court's decision. Copies of the Supreme Court decision and the attorneys' lien notice, as filed with the Court, are attached hereto.

The mailing certificate for this Notice of Claim of Attorney Lien is on file with the Workers' Compensation Court, P.O. Box 537, Helena, MT 59624-0537.

DATED in Helena, Montana, this 23rd day of January, 2003.

(SEAL)

\s\ Mike McCarter
JUDGE