All the headlines from our Oregon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 25 2016 // An Oregon cyclist who was clotheslined by a cable cord suspended across a road is suing Comcast and Portland Disposal.Portland attorney, Mark Ginsberg said his 64-year-old client Michael A. Horner was bicycling to work at...
Jul 21 2016 // The University of Oregon has agreed to pay $425,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by two former employees over allegations that the school retaliated against them for speaking out about a student’s therapy records...
Jul 20 2016 // Providence Health & Services in Oregon is notifying about 5,400 current and former patients that a former employee may have improperly accessed their patient records.Providence said in a statement that it learned of...
Jul 13 2016 // Oregon businesses that participate in the Associated General Contractors/SAIF Workers’ Compensation program will receive a $2.5 million retrospective return on their 2014-15 plan year premium, SAIF announced on...
Jul 13 2016 // Portland. Ore.-based ID Experts has named Kimberly Holmes senior vice president and counsel in cyber insurance, liability and emerging risks.Holmes will be responsible for overseeing cyber and insurance litigation...
Jul 11 2016 // An Oregon cyclist who was clotheslined by a cable cord suspended across a road is suing Comcast and Portland Disposal.Portland attorney, Mark Ginsberg told the Oregonian that his 64-year-old client Michael A. Horner was...
Jun 27 2016 // The mother of a 3-year-old girl who died after being strangled by a window blinds cord in a Clackamas County, Ore. apartment has filed a $4 million lawsuit.The Oregonian/OregonLive reported Sahrye Imani Hardy had been...
Jun 24 2016 // An Oregon teenager who was disfigured during a school trip in Costa Rica has filed a $20.8 million lawsuit against his former high school.The Oregonian/OregonLive reported that Joseph Christopher Johnson filed the suit...
Jun 20 2016 // Portland, Ore., officials have released a map and database showing about 1,800 unreinforced masonry buildings that may be vulnerable to shaking during an earthquake if they are not structurally retrofitted.These buildings...
Jun 17 2016 // The Oregon Shakespeare Festival can go to trial or pursue a settlement under a judge’s ruling that an insurer should have covered damage and cancellations related to wildfire smoke.The Mail Tribune reported Judge...
Jun 17 2016 // A 63-year-old woman has filed a lawsuit against a Portland, Ore. glass company, saying it caused her terminal lung cancer.Valerie Silva filed the lawsuit this week in U.S. District Court. Documents say she lives in...
Jun 13 2016 // The husband of a Portland, Ore. woman killed when a tree slammed into their house has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the owners of the home next door. The lawsuit states that Dennis Elleson feared the Douglas fir...
Jun 8 2016 // A Eugene, Ore. woman who sued her adopted parents after disclosing that her father sexually abused her has agreed to settle the civil case.The Register-Guard reports that according to documents filed in Lane County Circuit...
Jun 6 2016 // An Oregon jury has awarded $8.75 million to a 65-year-old man who has incurable cancer as a result of asbestos exposure in the 1970s.The Oregonian reported that David Hoff’s attorneys say the former construction...
May 31 2016 // Portland, Ore. officials have released a map and database showing about 1,800 unreinforced masonry buildings that may be vulnerable to shaking during an earthquake if they are not structurally retrofitted.These buildings...
May 26 2016 // A woman is suing a northwestern Oregon church over claims that its leaders kept quiet about reports from her daughter that she was being sexually abused by her father.The Oregonian/OregonLive reported that the $5 million...
May 25 2016 // A major fault off the Oregon Coast is expected to produce an earthquake, and transportation officials say preparing for that event needs to be a top priority.The Medford Mail Tribune reported a Cascadia Subduction Zone...
May 23 2016 // The parents of a newborn boy deprived of oxygen during a bungled water birth attempt have settled a lawsuit against a Portland, Ore. hospital for $13 million.The Oregonian/OregonLive reported the settlement with the Legacy...
May 23 2016 // The Oregon Supreme Court voted 5-2 to uphold a $3 million cap on damages injured people can collect in lawsuits against the state or its employees.The case was brought by a Klamath Falls couple who sued OHSU after a...
May 16 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Philip Morris USA’s challenge to a $25 million Oregon jury verdict in favor of a man whose wife died of a lung cancer-related brain tumor after smoking the...