All the headlines from our Oregon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 31 2013 // A second Oregon lawsuit has been filed this month over an inverted therapy table.The tables allow people to hang upside down, strapped to the flat surface, in hopes of relieving pain. The Eugene Register-Guard reported...
Jul 31 2013 // Oregon insurance regulators said that they’ve taken the first steps toward decertifying a workers’ compensation self-insurance trust and will shut it down next week if the employers can’t come up with...
Jul 29 2013 // A federal jury in Oregon has awarded $18.6 million to a woman who spent two years unsuccessfully trying to get Equifax Information Services to fix major mistakes on her credit report.The Oregonian reported that the award...
Jul 26 2013 // Two local folk singers, strumming guitars and crooning about the virtues of Oregon, have become the first tool in a $20 million campaign to convince Oregon’s uninsured to buy health insurance.Musicians Laura Gibson...
Jul 26 2013 // The estate of a drowned Vancouver, Wash., teen has sued the organizers of a summer camp in Oregon, saying they endangered the boy.The lawsuit filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court in Portland seeks $13 million. The...
Jul 25 2013 // Police have arrested a Central Oregon man accused of starting a wildfire that burned a Klamath County cabin and forced the temporary evacuation of about 120 homes.Kelly Parker, 30, of La Pine pleaded not guilty Tuesday...
Jul 25 2013 // True-crime author Ann Rule is suing a weekly Seattle newspaper, saying she was defamed in 2011 when the fiance of a convicted killer wrote a lengthy article accusing her of “sloppy storytelling.”The lawsuit,...
Jul 24 2013 // The family of a Klamath Falls girl who was burned in a fluke fire at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in Oregon has notified officials of their intent to sue. The Oregonian reported a letter from a lawyer says...
Jul 23 2013 // Liberty Mutual Insurance recently declared a 5 percent dividend for businesses participating in the Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association Safety Group Dividend Property & Liability Program. The nearly $165,000...
Jul 22 2013 // The Boy Scouts of America sued two insurance companies to try to recoup the costs of a settlement with two former Scouts who were sexually abused.BSA, which is based in Dallas, said in its lawsuit that the insurers covered...
Jul 1 2013 // Firefighters are nervous, and ranchers and farmers are hurting as Malheur County enters summer in drought.Gov. John Kitzhaber has issued drought declarations for four Oregon counties, including Malheur, the Vermont-size...
Jul 1 2013 // About 550,000 people in Oregon do not have health insurance, and Aaron Karjala is confident the state’s new online insurance exchange will be able to accommodate them when enrollment under President Barack...
Jun 28 2013 // A National Weather Service spokeswoman says a modest tornado did indeed touch down near the tiny Oregon town of Birkenfeld in the North Oregon Coast Range. The Tuesday afternoon tornado was classified as an EF-0, which...
Jun 26 2013 // Lawyers for 11 young children who reportedly suffered sexual abuse at a Salem, Ore., foster home have filed nearly $23 million in lawsuits against the state’s Department of Human Services.The lawsuits represent one...
Jun 24 2013 // A Multnomah County jury has awarded more than $6 million to a 21-year-old Oregon agricultural worker who was paralyzed from the waist down when his torso was crushed in a hay bale-cutting machine.The jury found that Double...
Jun 21 2013 // Former workers on public projects say in a federal court suit in Eugene, Ore. they were underpaid and have asked for more than $3.5 million.The Eugene Register-Guard reported the suit names four former workers as...
Jun 17 2013 // New tsunami maps being reviewed in northwest Oregon show there’s less high ground than previously thought if residents have to flee the most serious earthquake and tsunami projected. The Daily Astorian reported that...
Jun 7 2013 // American wheat farmers and a food safety advocacy group filed a lawsuit Thursday against biotech seed developer Monsanto Co., accusing the company of failing to protect the U.S. wheat market from contamination by its...
Jun 6 2013 // A Kansas farmer has sued seed giant Monsanto over the recent discovery of genetically engineered experimental wheat in an 80-acre field in Oregon, claiming the company’s gross negligence hurt U.S. growers by driving...
Jun 6 2013 // The Oregon Legislature has agreed to extend workplace protections against harassment and discrimination to unpaid interns.The Senate unanimously passed HB 2669, sending it to Gov. John Kitzhaber, who intends to sign it....