Oregon Revised Statutes

Or. Rev. Stat. § 655.505 (2026)

Definitions for ORS 655.505 to 655.555

✓ current as of May 2026

Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section ORSoregonlegislature.gov JustiaChapter on Justia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar

655.505 Definitions for ORS 655.505 to 655.555. As used in ORS 655.505 to 655.555:

(1) “Adult in custody” means a person committed to the physical and legal custody of the Department of Corrections.

(2) “Attending practitioner” means Department of Corrections or Oregon Youth Authority medical staff, or specialists assisting Department of Corrections or Oregon Youth Authority medical staff, while the adult in custody is committed to the physical and legal custody of the Department of Corrections. At all other times, “attending practitioner” means a person licensed in Oregon or another state as a doctor of medicine, doctor of osteopathic medicine, doctor of optometry, doctor of dentistry or nurse practitioner who provides services within the scope of the license.

(3) “Authorized work or occupational training assignment” means the work assignment of an adult in custody:

(a) As authorized by ORS 421.305 and 421.312;

(b) As authorized by ORS 421.450 to 421.480;

(d) As authorized by ORS 420.011;

(e) As authorized by ORS 420.240 to 420.265; or

(f) In any other adult in custody activity or program, including, but not limited to, on-the-job training established by the Department of Corrections under section 41, Article I, Oregon Constitution, whether or not compensation has been established by the Director of the Department of Corrections for participation in the activity or program.

(4) “Department” means the Oregon Department of Administrative Services.

(5) “Injury” means:

(a) An accidental injury or accidental injury to prosthetic devices occurring in the course of, and caused in major part by, an authorized work or occupational training assignment requiring medical services and resulting in disability or death; or

(b) Any disease or infection that:

(A) Arises out of, and in the course of, an authorized work or occupational training assignment;

(B) Is caused in major part by ingestion, absorption or inhalation of, or contact with, dust, fumes, vapors, gases, radiation or other substances to which a worker who is not an adult in custody is not ordinarily subjected or exposed while working;

(D) Results in disability or death.

(6) “Medical services” means reasonable and necessary services prescribed by an attending practitioner for conditions resulting from injury for a period that the nature of the injury or the process of recovery requires. “Medical services” includes medical, surgical, hospital, nursing, ambulance and other related services, drugs, medicine, crutches and prosthetic appliances, braces and supports and, when necessary, physical restorative services.

(7) “Medically stationary” means that no further material improvement would reasonably be expected from medical treatment or the passage of time.

(8) The terms “beneficiary,” “child” and “dependent” have the meanings given those terms in ORS 656.005. [1963 c.527 §1; 1967 c.504 §10; 1969 c.247 §6; 1969 c.597 §63; 1975 c.631 §1; 1987 c.320 §241; 1991 c.566 §7; 1993 c.500 §50; 1995 c.384 §18; 1997 c.851 §14; 2013 c.229 §13; 2015 c.342 §3; 2017 c.409 §18; 2019 c.213 §105]

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 7 cases, 1972–1996 · leading case: State, Dep't of Just. v. Bryant, 790 P.2d 42 (Or. Ct. App. 1990).

Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment

State, Dep't of Just. v. Bryant, 790 P.2d 42 (Or. Ct. App. 1990). · cites it 3× “520(3) provides in pertinent part: “The rights to benefits under ORS 655.505 to 655.550 shall be barred unless written claim is filed with the department within 90 days after the date of injury * * *.”

Dept. of Just. v. Spear, 783 P.2d 998 (Or. 1989). “The issue is whether the Inmate Injury Act, ORS 655.505 et seq, incorporates the attorney fees provisions of the Workers’ Compensation Law, ORS chapter 656.”

Johnson v. State Accident Ins. Fund, 516 P.2d 1289 (Or. 1973). · cites it 2× “•The question presented in this petition' for review is whether the Injured Inmates Act (ORS 655.505 to 655.550) authorizes an award of attorney’s fees in proceedings before the State Accident Insurance Fund board and the circuit court in those cases where the claimant…”

State v. Spear, 767 P.2d 928 (Or. Ct. App. 1989). · cites it 3× “520(1): “ ‘Claims for entitlement to benefits under ORS 655.505 to 655.550 [i.e. Inmate Injury Law] shall be filed by application with the State Accident Insurance Fund in the manner provided for workmen’s claims in ORS 656.”

Kemery v. SAIF Corp., 918 P.2d 124 (Or. Ct. App. 1996). · cites it 6× “Claimant seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board (Board) holding that claimant’s right to benefits under the Inmate Injury Act, ORS 655.505 et seq, 1 was time-barred, even though he reported his injury to a supervisor within the applicable 90-day time limit.”

Riley v. Inmate Injury Fund, 829 P.2d 1043 (Or. Ct. App. 1992). “794, to the extent not inconsistent with ORS 655.505 to 655.550. Such claims shall be filed within the required periods after the injury even though actual benefits may not accrue until release of the inmate from confinement.”

Marshall v. State Accident Ins. Fund, 496 P.2d 228 (Or. Ct. App. 1972). “After his release from the penitentiary, pursuant to ORS 655.505 through ORS 655.520, he was awarded 60 per cent loss of vision of the eye as permanent partial disability.”

— Or. Rev. Stat. § 655.505(1) — 1 case

State v. Spear, 767 P.2d 928 (Or. Ct. App. 1989). “520(1): “ ‘Claims for entitlement to benefits under ORS 655.505 to 655.550 [i.e. Inmate Injury Law] shall be filed by application with the State Accident Insurance Fund in the manner provided for workmen’s claims in ORS 656.”

— Or. Rev. Stat. § 655.505(2) — 1 case

Kemery v. SAIF Corp., 918 P.2d 124 (Or. Ct. App. 1996). “Claimant seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board (Board) holding that claimant’s right to benefits under the Inmate Injury Act, ORS 655.505 et seq, 1 was time-barred, even though he reported his injury to a supervisor within the applicable 90-day time limit.”

— Or. Rev. Stat. § 655.505(3) — 1 case

Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.