All the headlines from our Oregon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 2 2019 // Portland has agreed to pay $350,000 in attorneys’ fees related to a now-repealed policy that mandated warning signs on brittle brick buildings saying they are seismically unsafe.The Portland City Council voted 4-0 in...
Nov 27 2019 // The Oregon Supreme Court has ruled that a driver whose blood alcohol content registered .09% nearly two hours after he was stopped should not have been convicted of drunken driving. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the...
Nov 22 2019 // Portland has agreed to pay $350,000 in attorneys’ fees related to a now-repealed policy that mandated warning signs on brittle brick buildings saying they are seismically unsafe.The Oregonian/OregonLive reported the...
Nov 18 2019 // The family of a 67-year-old woman who allegedly died after she wandered out of her hospital room and into the basement of Providence Portland Medical Center in Oregon has filed a $1.075 million lawsuit.A lawsuit claims...
Nov 15 2019 // USI Insurance Services has acquired Portland, Ore.-based insurance agency Alfred J. Davis Co. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The agency’s employees and business operations will be integrated with USI’s...
Nov 14 2019 // On Dec. 14, 2018, Aaron Cole was about to buy a new house and received an email that he thought was from his title company, directing him to make a $123,000 deposit.Cole complied, not realizing that a sophisticated hacker...
Nov 5 2019 // The family of a 67-year-old woman who allegedly died after she wandered out of her hospital room and into the basement of Providence Portland Medical Center in Oregon has filed a $1.075 million lawsuit.The...
Oct 29 2019 // Sherri Harrison and Bryan Davis have been promoted in Lockton’s Pacific Series benefits practice Orange County, Calif., and the Pacific Northwest. Harrison’s expanded role now includes director of...
Oct 24 2019 // A woman who says she was repeatedly sexually abused by her pediatrician has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the doctor’s former medical clinic in Oregon.The Oregonian/OregonLive reported that the woman says the...
Oct 21 2019 // A 4.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of southern Oregon, The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed. The USGS mapped the earthquake about 96 miles off the coast of Port Orford, a small town in Curry County about 25...
Oct 16 2019 // Kat Merryfield was ready to share her farm-to-home oils, chocolates and creams with the rest of the country. But banks and credit card processors weren’t ready to work with her small business.“We started out...
Oct 11 2019 // The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services announced an 8.4% average reduction in pure premium rates for employers in 2020.The department each year adopts by rule the workers’ comp premium assessment...
Oct 10 2019 // Health officials say one more Oregonian has a vaping-related severe lung illness, raising Oregon’s toll to nine victims, two of whom have died.The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Gov. Kate Brown on Oct. 4 ordered a...
Oct 4 2019 // A man who says his donated sperm was used to father at least 17 children in violation of an agreement that allowed for no more than five has sued an Oregon fertility clinic.Dr. Bryce Cleary believes it’s possible...
Oct 3 2019 // State health officials say three additional cases of severe lung illnesses linked to vaping have been reported, bringing the total to eight.The Oregon Health Authority said last week that two Oregon victims had died. That...
Sep 30 2019 // A task force created by Oregon Gov. Kate Brown says climate change, overstocked forests and understaffed fire teams have placed Oregonians in extreme risk, necessitating a multi-billion-dollar program to safeguard the...
Sep 16 2019 // SAIF customers in Oregon will receive $160 million in dividends this year.The SAIF the board of directors declared a $120 million primary dividend to be paid to policyholders based on their premium, and a $40 million...
Sep 16 2019 // An Oregon teen who lost his leg in a car wreck is suing the driver who crashed into him — along with the Salem brewery accused of over-serving the driver- for $3.5 million.James Holland Jr., along with his parents,...
Sep 12 2019 // Nearly 776,000 homes with a reconstruction cost value of more than $221 billion are at extreme risk of wildfire damage, a new report out Thursday shows.The 2019 CoreLogic Wildfire Risk Report examines single-family and...
Sep 10 2019 // Oregon businesses will another drop in workers’ compensation costs in 2020.Employers in the state next year will pay an average of $1.02 per $100 of payroll for workers’ comp, down from $1.11 in 2019, under a...