Oregon Wrongful Death Settlement Calculator
Estimate a wrongful death settlement under Oregon law. The calculator applies this jurisdiction's own comparative fault rule and damages ceilings, and every figure below is the one our verified data holds, with the statute behind it and the date we checked it.
What Oregon law does to your claim
Four things in state law shape a wrongful death claim: how long you have to file, who the state's wrongful death statute says brings the action, the state's comparative fault rule, and whether the state puts a ceiling on what a jury can award. Here is what we hold for this one.
Oregon bars recovery if plaintiff is 51% or more at fault.
Or. Rev. Stat. § 31.600·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
The personal representative brings the action for the benefit of the surviving spouse, children and parents, others who would inherit the decedent's personal property by intestacy, and any stepchild or stepparent. ORS 30.020(1) reads: “the personal representative of the decedent, for the benefit of the decedent’s surviving spouse, surviving children, surviving parents and other individuals, if any, who under the law of intestate succession of the state of the decedent’s domicile would be entitled to inherit the personal property of the decedent, and for the benefit of any stepchild or stepparent whether that stepchild or stepparent would be entitled to inherit the personal property of the decedent or not, may maintain an action against the wrongdoer” We read this statute only, so it is not a complete account of Oregon wrongful death law, and how courts have applied it or divided a recovery is not stated here.
ORS 30.020(1)·Last reviewed 2026-10-16
None on record means our verified data holds no figure of this kind for this state. It is not a finding that no limit could apply to your claim.
What partial fault costs you in Oregon
The same claim, fracture with surgery, several months of recovery, run through the calculator above four times, with nothing changed but the share of fault assigned to the claimant. The numbers are the engine's output, not an editorial claim about what these cases are worth.
One case, run through the calculator above four times with only the claimant's share of fault changed, under Oregon law. No coverage ceiling is applied, because we would be inventing the at-fault party's policy. These shares illustrate the rule; they are not an estimate of your own fault.
Every Oregon deadline we hold
A claim can be more than one kind of case, and the clock is different for each. These are the Oregon periods in our verified data, with the statute behind each one. A deadline is the outside limit, never a target, and other rules can shorten it.
Or. Rev. Stat. § 12.110(1)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the personal injury calculatorOr. Rev. Stat. § 12.110(4)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the medical malpractice calculatorOr. Rev. Stat. § 30.020(1)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the wrongful death calculatorOr. Rev. Stat. § 656.265·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
Open the workers compensation calculatorOr. Rev. Stat. § 12.110(1)·Source retrieved 2026-07-27
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Every count below is read from our state-law data across all 51 jurisdictions, so it moves when the data does. What you will not find here is an average settlement figure: the only one we could compute is a model, and a model presented as a measurement is not a fact.
- 24 of the 51 jurisdictions we track apply modified comparative negligence with a 51% bar, and Oregon is one of them.
- Its 3 years to file is longer than the 2 years that 32 jurisdictions use. Across the 51 jurisdictions the deadline for this case type runs from 1 year to 3 years.
- We have read the official text of 37 jurisdictions' wrongful death statutes. In 20 the personal representative brings the action, in 7 family members or the personal representative may, and the other 10 name a family member, a trustee or a representative, or name who benefits rather than who sues. Oregon's is one of the 20 where the personal representative brings it.
- 23 of the 51 jurisdictions limit medical malpractice non-economic damages in our data, and Oregon is one of them at $500,000, so a large non-economic award can be reduced to it.
Comparisons are drawn from the legal levers that actually move a case value, not from closed-case data, which we do not hold. See the full methodology
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Every document behind our state injury law figures, each linked with the date we last read it, is listed on our State Injury Law research sources page.