All the headlines from our Oregon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 12 2015 // The U.S. government has opened a new line of business for America’s biggest banks, and for once they don’t want it. Little wonder: it’s cash from legalized marijuana.The financial-crimes arm of the...
May 8 2015 // Two men were hospitalized after one drove his car through an insurance agency’s front window in southeast Portland, Ore. KPTV-TV reported that surveillance video shows a white ford focus accelerating as it goes...
Apr 23 2015 // A former grade school teacher in eastern Oregon says she was so scared when a man burst into her classroom and pulled the trigger on the pistol he pointed at her face that she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder...
Apr 20 2015 // Hub International Insurance Services Inc. has promoted Gay Catherine Chung to senior vice president and client director and Arturo Perez-Reyes to senior vice president and cyber-group leader of the executive liability...
Apr 17 2015 // An Egyptian-born engineer is the latest worker to sue Portland, Ore.-based Daimler Trucks North America.The Oregonian reported the former employee seeks $2 million, alleging his supervisor often called him “bin...
Apr 15 2015 // About 5,500 more people could survive a major tsunami hitting the Pacific Northwest if they just walk a little faster to higher ground after roads are knocked out, a new study shows.The report published Monday in the...
Apr 10 2015 // Months after suspending operations in Portland, Uber is on the verge of the returning to the city and operating under regulations.The city’s Private For-Hire Innovation Task Force released details this week of a...
Apr 10 2015 // Leavitt Group has hired Paul Carpenter in its Portland, Ore. office. Carpenter specializes in commercial insurance. He has more than 15 years of experience managing teams and agencies in the life, individual and group...
Apr 9 2015 // The oil and gas industry is pushing back on a bill that would ban hydraulic fracturing in Oregon until 2025.The bill sponsor, Democratic Rep. Ken Helm, told a House committee Tuesday the proposal puts the state ahead of...
Apr 8 2015 // The board of directors of SAIF Corp. in Oregon on Wednesday named Kerry Barnett as the workers’ compensation insurer’s new president and CEO. Barnett has worked for Cambia Health Solutions, formerly The Regence...
Apr 7 2015 // Oregonians could begin flying along certain highways at 75 mph after lawmakers heard testimony Friday on a bill upping speed limits from 65 mph on interstate highways.Under the proposal, passenger cars would be able to go...
Apr 6 2015 // Easter Sunday marked the end of Uber in Eugene, Ore. at least for now.The Register-Guard newspaper reported Saturday that a hearings official imposed a civil penalty of $1,500 a day on the ridesharing company after...
Apr 6 2015 // The state of Oregon has a chance to continue its unique insurance policy that helps pay for fighting wildfires in big burning years – but at a higher premium and deductible.Lloyd’s of London has offered to cover up...
Apr 6 2015 // Californians facing a fourth year of drought conditions — and some other parts of the West – shouldn’t count on any relief in the coming months.In California this doesn’t bode well for chances of a mild...
Apr 3 2015 // On the heels of last week’s cross-industry compromise on insurance requirements for ride-sharing drivers, and with some legislative sessions drawing to a close, it’s a good time to take a look at where...
Apr 2 2015 // Nasburg & Company Insurance and Huggins Insurance, both based in Coos Bay, Ore., have merged to become Nasburg Huggins Insurance, and at the same time have entered into an affiliation with Leavitt Group.The...
Apr 1 2015 // Ski areas are asking the Oregon Legislature for enhanced protection from lawsuits after the state Supreme Court invalidated the broad liability waivers often printed on the back of lift tickets.Ski facility executives told...
Mar 24 2015 // A lawsuit filed in the death of a man who drowned when a fishing vessel sank nearly three years ago has been settled. The Oregonian newspaper reported the estate of David Terris sued the owner of the commercial fishing...
Mar 23 2015 // An Oregon woman has sued a Portland hospital for $900,000, alleging that a brain tumor sample set aside for biopsy has been lost, leaving her uncertain about whether the tumor was cancerous. Catherine Stewart is seeking...
Mar 19 2015 // Californians facing a fourth year of drought conditions – and some other parts of the West – shouldn’t count on any relief in the coming months.In California this doesn’t bode well for chances of a mild...