“Health insurance” means insurance of humans against bodily injury, disablement or death by accident or accidental means, or the expense thereof, or against disablement or expense resulting from sickness or childbirth, or against expense incurred in prevention of sickness, in dental care or optometrical service, and every insurance appertaining thereto, including insurance against the risk of economic loss assumed under a less than fully insured employee health benefit plan. “Health insurance” does not include workers’ compensation coverages.
ORS 731.162
Known as the Insurance Code
The act spans §§ 731–731 (240 sections).
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case Pacific Hospital Ass'n v. Marchbanks (1988)
Most recently applied in 205 Or. App. 64 - Pebb v. Ohsu (April 2006)
1967 c.359 §35; 1993 c.649 §6
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.