All the headlines from our Oregon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 13 2014 // The Eugene School District has paid $5,000 to settle an Oregon lawsuit that accused it of failing to stop students at a middle school from bullying and harassing a boy they perceived as gay. The suit was filed in federal...
Jan 2 2014 // Months after Carol Justice was wrongly told her home needs flood insurance, the Cornelius resident is still paying up – even though a surveyor has since determined her house is not in the flood zone.Justice is one of...
Dec 27 2013 // A British Columbia lawyer representing 12 victims from the 2012 charter bus crash on Interstate 84 near Pendleton filed a lawsuit Monday at the Umatilla County Courthouse seeking $700 million. The East Oregonian reported...
Dec 27 2013 // Fidelity National Financial Inc., the largest U.S. title insurer, won approval from U.S. antitrust regulators for its $2.9 billion acquisition of Lender Processing Services Inc.The Federal Trade Commission cleared the deal...
Dec 24 2013 // The Eugene School District has paid $5,000 to settle an Oregon lawsuit that accused it of failing to stop students at a middle school from bullying and harassing a boy they perceived as gay. The Eugene Register-Guard...
Dec 6 2013 // The family of an 18-year-old who was shot and killed after brandishing a knife at two Medford, Ore. police officers has filed a $2 million wrongful death lawsuit against the city.Family members called police in January...
Dec 2 2013 // A Eugene, Ore. woman whose husband killed the couple’s son and himself has sued the dentist who prescribed her husband a nicotine-cessation drug and the hospital that determined he was not a danger to himself or...
Dec 2 2013 // Two Oregon residents have sued a health care provider that screened them for HIV without their permission.The Oregonian reported the plaintiffs are asking the judge to approve the suit as a class action, to include the...
Dec 2 2013 // The Oregon Court of Appeals has rejected a constitutional challenge to Oregon’s Right to Farm law, but parties to the case say the question isn’t resolved. The Right to Farm law protects farmers from lawsuits...
Dec 2 2013 // An Oregon gynecologist who removed a patient’s healthy ovary and left a piece of plastic in her body after a 2007 robotic surgery has been ordered to pay more than $100,000.U.S. District Court jurors convicted Dr....
Nov 21 2013 // Portland, Ore.-based RiskPoint Insurance Advisors LLC named Blake Schellenberg managing principal.Schellenberg becomes one of four managing principals for RiskPoint. He has experience in insurance, and in several other...
Nov 20 2013 // The Oregon Court of Appeals has rejected a constitutional challenge to Oregon’s Right to Farm law, but parties to the case say the question isn’t resolved.The Capital Press agricultural publication reported the...
Nov 18 2013 // An Oregon gynecologist who removed a patient’s healthy ovary and left a piece of plastic in her body after a 2007 robotic surgery has been ordered to pay more than $100,000.The Mail Tribune newspaper reported that...
Nov 14 2013 // Attorneys representing the family of a 3-year-old girl have filed a multi-million lawsuit against the owners and managers of a suburban Portland apartment complex, alleging they failed to protect the child from an abusive...
Nov 4 2013 // Jurors in October ordered a Columbia Gorge hospital to pay $2.4 million in compensatory damages to three victims of an anesthesiologist now serving a 23-year sentence for sex abuse and rape.One woman was awarded $700,000,...
Nov 4 2013 // Oregonians are headed for a statewide vote on a new law that allows immigrants who can’t show they’re in the United States legally to obtain driver’s licenses.Secretary of State Kate Brown’s office...
Oct 31 2013 // The mother of a young Oregon girl who died after choking on a meatball at her preschool is seeking $7.6 million in a lawsuit against the suburban Portland school and its owner.The Oregonian reported that the lawsuit filed...
Oct 24 2013 // Jurors on Tuesday ordered a Columbia Gorge hospital to pay $2.4 million in compensatory damages to three victims of an anesthesiologist now serving a 23-year sentence for sex abuse and rape.One woman was awarded $700,000,...
Oct 23 2013 // A former Eugene woman is trying to keep the state of Oregon from claiming more than $200,000 from a medical malpractice settlement she received after suffering a stroke at age 27 that left her with only limited use of her...
Oct 21 2013 // Oregonians are headed for a statewide vote on a new law that allows immigrants who can’t show they’re in the United States legally to obtain driver’s licenses.Secretary of State Kate Brown’s office...