All the headlines from our Oregon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 11 2018 // The family of an Oklahoma teenager who drowned in the ocean while visiting the Oregon coast has filed a $3.6 million lawsuit against the city of Seaside.The Daily Astorian reported that 14-year-old Conner Miguel Wu Moore,...
Sep 7 2018 // A woman has filed a lawsuit against the University of Oregon over injuries she claims to have sustained while at a rock concert in 2016.The Register-Guard reporte Anne Holder filed the law suit last week in Lane County...
Aug 31 2018 // GCL New Energy Holdings Ltd. is managing the risk related to the unpredictable nature of the sun, with an insurance-like policy that will guarantee the production from solar projects it’s building in Oregon.KWh...
Aug 20 2018 // A climate prediction report issued by the National Weather Service says Oregon will remain hot, dry and smoky well into autumn this year.The Statesman Journal reported that forecast in the report released last week means...
Aug 10 2018 // The estimated cost of fighting Oregon wildfires this summer stands at more than $180 million. That’s $30 million more than at the same time last year. The Mail Tribune reported that 75 percent of those dollars have...
Jul 30 2018 // An insurance company for a Portland apartment complex has agreed to pay $100,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the mother of a 2-year-old girl who died in her bedroom after a heater malfunctioned.In a lawsuit that had...
Jul 26 2018 // Lawyers for an Oregon high school student who was disciplined for wearing a T-shirt promoting President Donald Trump’s effort to build a border wall say they have reached a settlement of his lawsuit. The lawyers say...
Jul 23 2018 // A federal appeals court in San Francisco on Friday rejected the Trump administration’s renewed bid to dismiss a lawsuit by young activists who say the U.S. government is ignoring the perils of climate change.By a 3-0...
Jul 20 2018 // The Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled that a trial judge shouldn’t have reduced a jury’s award to a man whose leg was severed by a garbage truck in downtown Portland.In reinstating the award, the Appeals Court...
Jul 16 2018 // How much medical marijuana is in the pipeline in Oregon? The managers of the state’s program concede that they simply don’t know because of lax reporting by producers and a lack of site inspectors.That, they...
Jun 25 2018 // Several African Americans are suing big-box stores and restaurants in Oregon, claiming employees at those places wrongly accused them of stealing because they were “shopping while black.”A Portland law firm has...
Jun 18 2018 // A glut of legal marijuana is driving Oregon pot prices to rock-bottom levels, prompting some nervous growers to start pivoting to another type of cannabis to make ends meet, one that doesn’t come with a...
Jun 18 2018 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has added risk management and insurance professionals Rose Nordbrock, Jeff Breskin, Pabla Barros and Jose Fuentes to the firm’s operations in Southern California.Nordbrock joins...
Jun 13 2018 // Researchers at Oregon State University say bridges and roads in the northwestern resort city of Seaside should be prioritized for improvement after a simulation discovered they would have higher mortality rates in an...
Jun 5 2018 // SAIF has named Laura Robison, a former Oregon insurance commissioner, as its chief actuarial officer.The appointment is effective in September. Robison will manage the loss reserving process, oversee ratemaking and rate...
Jun 4 2018 // Oregon produced enough recreational cannabis last year to supply every adult resident with more than 5 ounces of legal marijuana.There were more than 1 million pounds in the state’s supply chain. Data provided by the...
Jun 1 2018 // A city in central Oregon seeks $62,000 from a tree removal company that accidentally cut down a big spruce that was slated to become the city’s Christmas tree.In a lawsuit filed last week, Redmond officials allege...
May 31 2018 // Beecher Carlson Insurance Services LLC has named Jeff C. Rhoades vice president. Rhoades joins the practice in Portland, Ore., and will report to Erin Lynch, president of the energy practice. Rhoades will focus his efforts...
May 29 2018 // Oregon produced enough recreational cannabis last year to supply every adult resident with more than 5 ounces of legal marijuana.The Bend Bulletin reports there were more than 1 million pounds in the state’s supply...
May 25 2018 // The city of Springfield, Ore. has agreed to pay $75,000 to settle a 2014 lawsuit by a dispatcher who said she was wrongly fired after accusing officers of inappropriate conduct.The Register-Guard reported that a joint...