---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 301.319"
title: "28"
number: "301.319"
heading: "Exclusiveness of remedy."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/301.319"
---

# §301.319. Exclusiveness of remedy.


Inmates who are subject to the provisions of these Inmate Accident Compensation regulations are barred from recovery under the Federal Tort Claims Act ([28 U.S.C. 2671](/usc/28/2671.md) et seq.). Recovery under the Inmate Accident Compensation procedure was declared by the U.S. Supreme Court to be the exclusive remedy in the case of work-related injury. U.S. v. Demko, 385 U.S. 149 (1966).


## Notes

### Amendments

[55 FR 9296, Mar. 12, 1990, as amended at 59 FR 2667, Jan. 18, 1994]

### Authority

Authority: 18 U.S.C. 4126, 28 CFR 0.99, and by resolution of the Board of Directors of Federal Prison Industries, Inc.

### Source

Source: 55 FR 9296, Mar. 12, 1990, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[55 FR 9296, Mar. 12, 1990, as amended at 59 FR 2667, Jan. 18, 1994]