All the headlines from our Oregon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 6 2010 // Oregon’s Division of Insurance announced it is changing the order of the resident license application process to streamline the process so that producer applicants take required exams before submitting an application...
Sep 13 2010 // The Oregon Insurance Division has issued a bulletin to clarify the use of consumer credit information for personal insurance policies.According to the Department of Consumer and Business Services, Senate Bill 377 passed in...
Sep 9 2010 // Oregon’s Department of Consumer and Business Services announced that on average, workers’ compensation rates for 2011 will remain flat. The pure premium rate will decrease 1.8 percent in 2011, but the...
Sep 7 2010 // A battle over liability insurance coverage for groups using Oregon state property is brewing, and the Northwest Civil War Council is right in the middle of it.In 2009, the Oregon State Legislature passed Senate Bill 311,...
Jun 16 2010 // The current recession has reduced Oregon revenues, and has forced the Legislature to make deep cuts. Coping with these cuts includes closing the Department of Consumer and Business Services and most other state agencies on...
Jun 10 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of Oregon (IIABO) is now accepting nominations for the 2010 Accredited Customer Service Representative of the Year award, which recognizes an employee for his or her...
Jun 1 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating to ‘A’ (Excellent) from’ A+’ (Superior) and issuer credit ratings to “a+” from “aa-” of Frankenmuth Insurance and...
May 28 2010 // The median six-month auto insurance rate in Oregon has decreased approximately 4.3 percent over the past six months to reach $577 according to InsWeb, an online insurance comparison provider. InsWeb also reported Oregon...
May 19 2010 // A federal judge has dismissed a challenge to the new Oregon workplace meetings law which prohibits employers from firing workers who refuse to attend meetings to discuss politics, religion or union organizing.U.S. District...
May 10 2010 // Transportation incidents continue to be the No. 1 cause of on-the job deaths, a trend that has been the case since 1992, according to the American Society of Safety Engineers’ (ASSE). In fact, in 2008, 40 percent of...
May 10 2010 // The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services Insurance Division is reminding the insurance industry of new credit scoring legislation, which passed in the 2009 Legislative session and apply to personal insurance...
Apr 16 2010 // For the fourth year in a row, most physicians and surgeons in Oregon will see a decline or no change in medical professional liability insurance rates, according to rate changes reviewd by the state Department of Consumer...
Apr 5 2010 // Clackamas Insurance, which has offices in Clackamas and Sandy, Ore., has purchased Premier Insurance. According to W. Mike Moll, Clackamas president, all but one of Premier’s employees, and all the independent...
Mar 22 2010 // The Oregon Public Employee Retirement Fund will recover losses that were attributable to a pattern of poor disclosure and bid-rigging by insurance giant American International Group Inc. (AIG), under a settlement announced...
Mar 12 2010 // The current recession has reduced Oregon revenues, and has forced the Legislature to make deep cuts in agency budgets, the state Department of Consumer and Business Services announced. State workers affected by the...
Mar 10 2010 // Oregon’s private sector workers suffered work-related injuries and illnesses at a rate of 4.6 percent for every 100 full0time employees in 2008, the most recent year for which data is available. According to the...
Mar 9 2010 // The transportation and warehousing industry was the most dangerous industry in 2009 in Oregon, according to the state Department of Business and Consumer Services, Information Management Division.According to DCBS’...
Mar 8 2010 // An audit by the Oregon Secretary of State’s office says there has been little progress in fixing serious gaps in the state’s data security systems.Auditors wrote in the report that the weaknesses could...
Feb 26 2010 // The Oregon Public Employee Retirement Fund will recover losses that were attributable to a pattern of poor disclosure and bid-rigging by insurance giant American International Group Inc. (AIG), under a settlement announced...
Feb 18 2010 // Oregon’s Department of Consumer and Business Services Insurance Division has finalized changes to its health insurance rate review process that make all information submitted as part of an insurance company’s...