All the headlines from our Oregon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 20 2014 // A state-by-state ranking of workers’ compensation premiums, one that states reportedly use as a motivational call to improve their systems, seems to call for even more reform of California’s recently reformed...
Oct 13 2014 // California’s Department of Industrial Relations Director it taking a bit of umbrage with a study released last week that showed the state was ranked as the costliest for workers’ compensation.Despite major...
Oct 9 2014 // A state-by-state ranking of workers’ compensation premiums, one that states reportedly use as a motivational call to improve their systems, seems to call for more reform of California’s recently reformed...
Oct 7 2014 // A hospital in The Dalles, Ore. and two administrators have settled a lawsuit brought by four female patients molested by an anesthesiologist while they were under sedation.The Dalles Chronicle reported that the amount of...
Oct 3 2014 // An Oregon judge needed less than a half hour to dismiss a $100 million lawsuit filed by an imprisoned pimp who contended Nike should have included a consumer warning on the sneakers the man used to beat a...
Sep 24 2014 // Typical insurance policies won’t cover people participating in the “sharing economy” by renting out their home or using their car for a driving service, Oregon’s insurance commissioner is...
Sep 16 2014 // A wind-driven fire cut through a small California town near the Oregon border on Monday damaging or destroying 100 homes and prompting evacuation orders for at least 1,500 people, authorities said.The town near the base of...
Sep 5 2014 // Oregon’s tough wildfire season has pushed spending to the point the state Department of Forest is tapping its special insurance policy for the second year in a row. The Bulletin reported that state wildfire costs...
Aug 22 2014 // Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Crestbrook Insurance Co., an affluent market personal lines carrier, is expanding into Oregon and Washington. Independent insurance agents and brokers appointed with Crestbrook in both states are...
Aug 18 2014 // A settlement agreement in a Lane County, Ore., drunk driving lawsuit appears to award slightly more than $180,000 to the victim’s heirs.The mother and two children of a Cottage Grove woman killed by a drunken driver...
Aug 18 2014 // A settlement agreement in a Lane County, Ore., drunk driving lawsuit appears to award slightly more than $180,000 to the victim’s heirs.The mother and two children of a Cottage Grove woman killed by a drunken driver...
Aug 13 2014 // A woman who says she hurt her back after slipping on a greasy spot at a Safeway store in Sandy, Ore. has filed a lawsuit against the grocery chain. The Oregonian newspaper reported that Tammy Hadley seeks at least $30,000...
Aug 8 2014 // A new wildfire pushed by gusting winds threatens the small Columbia River Gorge community of Rowena, Ore., where residents of 275 homes had been told to evacuate.The fire made a run along the river in the evening on Aug....
Aug 6 2014 // Capital Insurance Group named Bernie Howes agency development manager for its Northwest Region. Howes is advancing to an expanded role overseeing business growth, recruitment and training for Oregon. CIG’s Northwest...
Aug 5 2014 // A settlement agreement in a Lane County, Ore. drunk driving lawsuit appears to award slightly more than $180,000 to the victim’s heirs.The Register-Guard reported the mother and two children of a Cottage Grove woman...
Aug 5 2014 // Two wildfires that burned or threatened hundreds of homes in Northern California were bearing down on a small town as they plowed through more than 100 square miles of drought-stricken brush, and Tuesday brought a chance...
Aug 4 2014 // Shooting ranges in White City, Ore., have reopened after the National Rifle Association agreed to provide insurance coverage.The 18 ranges were forced to close July 1 because their insurance carrier dropped coverage after...
Aug 4 2014 // The recently fired police chief of a central Oregon town says he was undone by an ambitious deputy who had eyes for his job and a city government that resented the leave he took for military service.Former Prineville...
Aug 4 2014 // In the third year of a drought, reservoirs in far Eastern Oregon are low, and farmers are running out of irrigation water. South of Ontario, Jay Chamberlin of the Owyhee Irrigation District in Nyssa says he’s been...
Aug 4 2014 // Allstate Insurance Co. plans to add several local agency owners in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska and Hawaii in 2014.Allstate’s plan is to recruit 51 new exclusive agents, 13 financial specialists and the company...