All the headlines from our Oregon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 10 2016 // The Lakeside Rural Fire Protection District in Oregon has suspended emergency operations because of a lapse in its insurance policy.Acting fire district chairman Ralph Dotson tells The World newspaper of Coos Bay that the...
Feb 9 2016 // Insurance regulators in Alaska and Oregon announced that a company that had been suspended from offering health insurance policies in the states over concerns with its financial condition will be allowed to resume that...
Feb 1 2016 // The University of Oregon has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a former basketball player who claims the school damaged his prospects of playing in the NBA.Brandon Austin was one of three UO basketball...
Jan 28 2016 // The National Weather Service says warm, moist air from the jet stream could cause flooding in southwestern Oregon. The Mail Tribune reported that meteorologist Charles Smith of the NWS Medford office says the weather...
Jan 28 2016 // An Oregon resident has filed a class-action lawsuit against two daily fantasy sports sites, claiming the businesses are operating illegal online sports betting.The Oregonian reported that Polk County resident Brandon Peck...
Jan 11 2016 // A Medford, Ore., woman has filed a lawsuit against two construction companies after her husband was crushed to death by a dump truck in a construction area on Interstate 5 near Cottage Grove. Karee Battenfield filed a $7.9...
Jan 11 2016 // A Portland, Ore. woman struck by a drunken driver in a crosswalk has filed a lawsuit seeking $4,600 for the designer clothes she was wearing at the time, on top of the cost of her medical bills. Susan Layne sued in...
Dec 29 2015 // A Portland, Ore. woman struck by a drunken driver in a crosswalk has filed a lawsuit seeking $4,600 for the designer clothes she was wearing at the time, on top of the cost of her medical bills. The Oregonian reported that...
Dec 28 2015 // The wife of one of two people killed when a freight train struck an SUV at a rural crossing in Oregon seeks $2.7 million in a wrongful death lawsuit against Union Pacific and several workers.The suit alleges there were...
Dec 21 2015 // A 70-year-old woman died and her husband suffered injuries when a landslide struck their vacation home on the central Oregon coast.Officials say Dolores Miller died when the landslide struck the home near Florence at about...
Dec 21 2015 // A Medford, Ore. woman has filed a lawsuit against two construction companies after he husband was crushed to death by a dump truck in a construction area on Interstate 5 near Cottage Grove. The Mail Tribune reported that...
Dec 14 2015 // The Oregon Supreme Court ruled last week that a Portland taxicab company must pay unemployment insurance taxes for certain drivers because they were improperly classified as independent contractors.The case comes amid...
Dec 10 2015 // Scientists say the fire-damaged forests are more susceptible to landslides, and another week of rain and snow could heighten that risk for eastern Oregon. The East Oregonian reported that wildfires have stripped away...
Dec 8 2015 // Ridesharing services such as Uber and Lyft should continue to operating in Portland, Ore. after the City Council approved a new set of rules to govern taxis.The Oregonian reported that the council voted last week to allow...
Dec 8 2015 // Red Shield Insurance Co. has named Kevin Tufts an underwriting department manager in Portland, Ore. Tufts has 21 years of experience in commercial lines underwriting. He started his insurance career as a workers’...
Dec 7 2015 // A volunteer seeks $675,000 in a lawsuit against the Gospel Rescue Mission of Grants Pass, Ore., alleging it failed to protect her from an enraged man whose wife and daughter were at a women’s shelter.The lawsuit and...
Dec 3 2015 // A retired Army officer who worked in the ROTC office at the University of Portland in Oregon has filed a lawsuit claiming his co-workers discriminated against him because of disabilities he suffered in combat in Iraq and...
Nov 23 2015 // A volunteer seeks $675,000 in a lawsuit against the Gospel Rescue Mission of Grants Pass, Ore. alleging it failed to protect her from an enraged man whose wife and daughter were at a women’s shelter.The lawsuit and a...
Nov 19 2015 // A 20-year-old Pacific University student who says another student raped her has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Oregon university.The Oregonian reported that the lawsuit says the rape occurred after both students...
Nov 13 2015 // Two former University of Oregon counseling center employees say they were shunned, criticized and threatened with dismissal at the UO after they blew the whistle on superiors who had seized a student’s therapy...