All the headlines from our Oregon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 18 2009 // Oregon’s 2008 Workers’ Compensation Premium Rate Ranking Study has been released, the Departmnet of Consumer and Business Services announced. The results suggest that Oregon employers in the voluntary market...
Mar 17 2009 // National Contractors Insurance Company, Inc., a Risk Retention Group (“NCIC”) specializes in general liability insurance for licensed residential and commercial general and artisan contractors. NCIC writes the...
Mar 9 2009 // $6.8 MillionColorado’s Division of Insurance announced that Allstate Insurance Group decreased its rates for private passenger automobile policies in the state, providing a savings of $6.8 million to consumers...
Mar 4 2009 // At an average cost of $502 per year, home insurance in Oregon is among the least costly in the nation, according to a nationwide survey. For example, the average homeowner’s premium was $1,257 in Louisiana and $603...
Mar 3 2009 // The American Insurance Association (AIA), National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) and Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) are reaching out to Oregon legislators to highlight what it...
Mar 3 2009 // Instead of banning pit bulls as pets altogether in Oregon (an idea that was dropped on March 2), the state House is now considering a measure that would require pit bull owners to maintain liability insurance, or face...
Mar 2 2009 // A light earthquake deep under the mountains of southwestern Oregon may have left many slumbering at 2 a.m. on Feb. 26, but a geologist said it was an eye-opener.The quake was about 24 miles deep and arose from a plate of...
Feb 22 2009 // The lawmakers are back, at least in most of the Western states, such as Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. California legislators are back as well, but it...
Feb 19 2009 // The Oregon Senate has voted to increase the amount of compensation paid to the families of workers killed on the job. Senate Bill 110 increases aid to the college-age children of single parents who lose that parent in a...
Feb 17 2009 // Lawsuits against Oregon state and local governments could get bigger under a bill approved by the Oregon Senate Judiciary Committee.The proposal, Senate Bill 311, would increase government liability caps to boost the...
Feb 10 2009 // Twenty Alaska Natives have joined a lawsuit claiming they were abused by Jesuit priests or those supervised by Jesuits, and a lawyer said the head of the Roman Catholic order has been served with court papers naming him as...
Feb 9 2009 // Quirk & Co., an insurance wholesaler headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, with branch offices in Austin, Dallas, and Atlanta, recently named Merry Palmer manager of the Pacific Northwest Lines Team and Cheri Bahmanyar...
Feb 9 2009 // The Oregon Legislature is considering a bill that would prohibit an insurer that issues personal insurance policies in the state to cancel, or non-renew a policy after evaluating the individual’s credit history or...
Feb 6 2009 // The Oregon House is evaluating a bill, HB 2326, that would increase the amount of motor vehicle liability coverage required for property damage and certain personal injury protection benefits.According to bill text, PIP...
Jan 16 2009 // The Jesuit order has been sued by 43 Alaska Natives who say they were sexually abused as children, and mounting evidence shows that known pedophile priests were sent to the Fairbanks, Alaska, Diocese for decades, a lawyer...
Jan 12 2009 // Damage estimates to Oregon’s nursery stock industry from late December storms suffered by 160 growers in 12 counties range from $18 million to $31 million in a survey conducted by the Oregon Association of...
Jan 11 2009 // The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services Insurance Division adopted new insurance producer fingerprint rules on Dec. 9, 2008. Rules OAR 836-072-0001 to 836-072-0045 were designed to protect consumers from...
Dec 29 2008 // The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services, Insurance Division, is reminding insurance producers of new fingerprint rules that were adopted on Dec. 9, 2008.According to DCBS, the rules OAR 836-072-0001 to...
Dec 22 2008 // Oregon doctors have won a major dispute with insurance companies over worker compensation billing.The state Workers Compensation Division has issued a permanent rule forbidding insurers from unilaterally taking discounts...
Nov 5 2008 // The property/casualty insurance marketplace could not function without insurance agents and brokers. Consequently, it’s important for state regulators to work with agents within their states.Recently, several...