All the headlines from our Oregon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 4 2013 // Oregon Insurance Commissioner Lou Savage is leaving the Insurance Division to work on legal reform in emerging democracies overseas after nearly two years at the post.Laura Cali, the division’s chief actuary and...
Jun 3 2013 // A Portland employee is suing the city, claiming she was sickened by a co-worker’s scented fragrance. The lawsuit from Bureau of Maintenance worker Julie Reynolds seeks $50,000 in damages. She has a condition called...
May 20 2013 // A Washington state man has a hefty speeding ticket to pay after getting clocked at 130 mph on his new motorcycle in central Oregon. Sixty-one-year-old Gregory Zaser, of the wealthy Lake Washington enclave of Medina, east...
May 17 2013 // Chris Peterson has recently joined Elliott, Powell, Baden & Baker Insurance in Oregon as a commercial insurance producer. Peterson is past president of the Professional Insurance Agents of Oregon and Idaho. He has...
May 16 2013 // A federal judge has dismissed a movie company’s Internet piracy complaint against 34 Oregonians, saying the company was unfairly using the court’s subpoena power in a “reverse class-action suit” to...
May 16 2013 // A Portland employee is suing the city, claiming she was sickened by a co-worker’s scented fragrance.The lawsuit from Bureau of Maintenance worker Julie Reynolds seeks $50,000 in damages. She has a condition called...
May 8 2013 // A Washington state man has a hefty speeding ticket to pay after getting clocked at 130 mph on his new motorcycle in central Oregon. Sixty-one-year-old Gregory Zaser, of the wealthy Lake Washington enclave of Medina, east...
May 3 2013 // A jury has ruled that Benton County does not have to compensate a Colorado couple who lost their Corvallis-area home to a landslide. The suit filed by Bob and Gayna Flake claimed their more than $800,000 loss constituted...
May 2 2013 // Tens of thousands of immigrants living in Oregon without legal permission will be able to get four-year driver’s licenses starting Jan. 1 under a bill given final legislative approval by the House on Tuesday.The...
Apr 29 2013 // A police officer fired for driving drunk in an unmarked police car while off-duty has filed a $6 million lawsuit against the city of Gresham, Ore. the police chief and others, alleging his rights were violated under the...
Apr 17 2013 // An Oregon Senate committee has advanced a bill granting four-year driver’s licenses to people who can’t prove they’re legally in the United States.The Senate Business and Transportation Committee approved...
Mar 22 2013 // A handful of bills proposed in Oregon could hit consumers with nearly $200 million in cost increases and yield a rash of lawsuits, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, which is urging Oregon...
Mar 21 2013 // Officials in Medford say an emerging state plan for recovering from a major earthquake would keep their region isolated from the rest of Oregon for a lengthy period because repair efforts to get traffic moving north-south...
Mar 20 2013 // Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber has signed a bill creating a new mediation process for patients injured by medical mistakes. Kitzhaber signed the measure Monday flanked by legislators and the leaders of the Oregon Medical...
Mar 20 2013 // Oregon State Police say a trooper checked Facebook to determine that a driver whose face didn’t match his license was really a fugitive wanted on felony warrants. Lt. Gregg Hastings says an equipment violation...
Mar 18 2013 // A teenage boy and his mother have sued a Portland hospital, alleging the boy was burned after a technician left metal discs on his body during a magnetic resonance imaging exam.The Oregonian reported that Aaron Lee and his...
Mar 18 2013 // More than 10,000 people could die when – not if – a monster earthquake and tsunami occur just off the Pacific Northwest coast, researchers told Oregon legislators .Coastal towns would be inundated. Schools, buildings...
Mar 11 2013 // More data is power, but then again knowledge goes only so far – especially in workers’ compensation.A report out in late February shows continued workers’ comp rate decreases on average countrywide through...
Mar 7 2013 // The Oregon Senate has passed a bill creating a new mediation process for patients injured by medical mistakes.The bill passed Tuesday in a 26-3 vote despite criticisms from some lawmakers who said it should have included...
Mar 4 2013 // A federal jury has awarded a former sergeant $750,000 in a lawsuit over his departure from the Roseburg police force.The Roseburg News-Review reported that Gregrey Fetsch argued the city didn’t give him a chance to...