The Insurance Code shall be liberally construed and shall be administered and enforced by the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to give effect to the policy stated in ORS 731.008.
ORS 731.016
Known as the Insurance Code
The act spans §§ 731–731 (240 sections).
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case Pierce v. Allstate Insurance (1993)
Most recently applied in Dowell v. Oregon Mutual Insurance Co. (February 2017)
1967 c.359 §4
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.