All the headlines from our Oregon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 28 2013 // The Environmental Protection Agency held a meeting in Salem, Ore. to update the public on a preliminary assessment of four sites in west Salem connected to five cases of rare bone cancer. The four are West Salem High...
Feb 26 2013 // More data is power, but then again knowledge goes only so far – especially in workers’ compensation.A report out on Tuesday shows continued workers’ comp rate decreases on average countrywide through 2011,...
Feb 26 2013 // Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. named Marc Strickland to the firm’s Portland, Ore. office as vice president and account executive of employee benefits. Strickland will be responsible for overseeing and delivering client...
Feb 25 2013 // Oregon lawmakers are considering a bill that would expand the definition of drunken driving to include prescription drugs and synthetic substances that mimic drugs. Currently “intoxicants” cover only alcohol,...
Feb 19 2013 // A 34-year-old woman who was raised near Portland, Ore. has filed a $16 million lawsuit, alleging she was the victim of sexual abuse as a teenager.The Oregonian newspaper reported that Cristie Prasnikar, who now lives out...
Feb 18 2013 // A trial has began in Eugene, Ore. in a civil lawsuit in which former KFLY-FM traffic reporter Michael Fleming says he was the victim of discrimination and hateful attacks on the afternoon “Donkey Show.”Show...
Feb 17 2013 // Usually staunch adversaries, doctors and trial lawyers have both gotten behind an Oregon bill creating a new mediation process for patients injured by medical mistakes, which is aimed at reducing medical liability...
Feb 7 2013 // Scientists say a 30-foot boat that washed ashore on Gleneden Beach on the central Oregon coast appears to be debris from the March 2011 Japan tsunami.Oregon Fish and Wildlife Department spokesman Rick Boatner says it is...
Feb 6 2013 // Oregon lawmakers are considering a bill that would expand the definition of drunken driving to include prescription drugs and synthetic substances that mimic drugs. Currently “intoxicants” cover only alcohol,...
Feb 6 2013 // A state commission says a magnitude 9 earthquake off the Oregon coast and tsunami could cause more than $30 billion damage to the state economy.Such a quake also could kill as many as 10,000 people in the state, but the...
Jan 30 2013 // While some states have fought President Barack Obama’s federal health care overhaul, known as the Affordable Care Act, Oregon has embraced it.The law requires every state to have a new health insurance marketplace...
Jan 29 2013 // A federal judge in Oregon has partially dismissed a lawsuit alleging wrongful termination by former Sunriver police chief Michael Kennedy.But Kennedy’s attorney told the Bulletin that aspects of the case that were...
Jan 18 2013 // The legal problems are piling up for the Canadian tour company whose bus crashed on an icy highway in Eastern Oregon last month, killing nine passengers and injuring almost 40.An attorney who filed a lawsuit in Tacoma,...
Jan 11 2013 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says an Oregon-based construction company will pay $180,000 to a pair of former employees who were subject to racial taunts on a Salt Lake City work site.The EEOC says a...
Jan 9 2013 // Two survivors of an Eastern Oregon tour bus crash that killed nine passengers allege in a lawsuit that the driver was tired, didn’t heed warnings and was going too fast on a road with patches of snow and ice.Attorney...
Dec 21 2012 // A registered nurse who worked for three months at a Bend, Ore., hospital has sued for $250,000, contending she was fired for reporting the misdeeds of co-workers.The Bend Bulletin reported that according to the Circuit...
Dec 12 2012 // Colorado, Oregon and Washington are among the first six states to get preliminary approval from the Obama Administration to operate a health insurance exchange.The Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services announced the...
Dec 3 2012 // Insurance companies that paid $1.7 million to six homeowners in a fire blamed on a homeless Ashland, Ore. man have sued the owners of a vacant lot where the fire started.The suit alleges the owners had been told vagrants...
Nov 19 2012 // Adeveloper whose plans to redevelop a sawmill in Sweet Home, Ore., has pleaded guilty to accusations that he allowed an unlicensed contractor to demolish a building, releasing asbestos near residential neighborhoods.After...
Nov 15 2012 // Commercial insurance specialist Rick Sottile has joined Portland, Ore.-based Elliott, Powell, Baden & Baker Insurance. Sottile has nearly 35 years’ experience insuring technology, manufacturing, distribution and...