All the headlines from our Oregon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 16 2006 // Oregon Mutual Insurance Co. has announced that Karen Lowart has been named agency marketing manager in the Central and Northern Valley region in California. Lowart joins OMI with a strong insurance background, having...
May 5 2006 // Eugene-Oregon-based Cramer & Giles Insurance Inc. has been acquired by Beecher Carlson, an insurance brokerage and risk management consulting firm headquartered in Atlanta. Cramer & Giles has been merged with...
May 4 2006 // Portland, Ore., Archbishop John Vlazny is warning Catholics throughout Western Oregon that the Archdiocese is facing “serious cash flow problems,” and needs to cut $1 million from its budget for the upcoming...
Apr 17 2006 // Editor’s note: This is the second article in a series on Western insurance associations. Part I of this article appeared in the April 3, 2006, western region publication beginning on page 47.As people migrate to the...
Apr 3 2006 // Multi-State Agencies IBA West (Alaska, California, Oregon, Washington). Web site: www.iba west.com PIA West (Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington). Phone: (888)...
Mar 28 2006 // If bird flu breaks out among humans in Oregon, hospitals could be short of mechanical breathing machines, forcing doctors to make life-and-death decisions about who gets to use them.Ventilators essential to treating severe...
Feb 28 2006 // A recent shooting last week at Roseburg High School in Roseburg, Oregon was a chilling reminder to many of the 1998 rampage at Springfield’s Thurston High School, when Kip Kinkel opened fire, killing two and wounding...
Feb 20 2006 // Oregon has started its program to track medical errors at hospitals and determine what could have been done to prevent them.The Oregon Patient Safety Commission unanimously approved rules and guidelines for its effort to...
Feb 19 2006 // Oregon has started its program to track medical errors at hospitals and determine what could have been done to prevent them.The Oregon Patient Safety Commission unanimously approved rules and guidelines for its effort to...
Feb 13 2006 // As many as 700 women along the West Coast were not told that an institute financed by the insurance industry kept their placentas after giving birth in order to protect doctors and hospitals from potential lawsuits,...
Feb 3 2006 // Oregon has started its program to track medical errors at hospitals and determine what could have been done to prevent them.The Oregon Patient Safety Commission unanimously approved rules and guidelines for its effort to...
Dec 19 2005 // Scotts Miracle-Gro Co., looking for ways to hold down health insurance costs, will require workers who smoke to quit by or lose their jobs.The lawn and garden company wants workers to live healthy lifestyles, said James...
Dec 19 2005 // Stratton Insurance Services Inc. of Pendleton, Oreg., is the newest member to join ISU International’s national network of agencies. The ISU Group operates a national network of locally-owned offices. Each member...
Dec 18 2005 // AlaskaPresident Declares Alaska Major Disaster Following Fall Weather The head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has reported that President George W. Bush has...
Dec 5 2005 // Montana House Bill 631(Signed into law on April 8, 2005) Regulation: This law relates to the revision of surplus lines insurance law and provides that a policy may not be placed with an unauthorized insurer unless the...
Dec 4 2005 // Montana House Bill 631 (Signed into law on April 8, 2005)Regulation: This law relates to the revision of surplus lines insurance law and provides that a policy may not be placed with an unauthorized insurer unless the...
Nov 23 2005 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) has announced it is concerned about Oregon’s Construction Claims Task Force (CCTF) decision to designate a “single private insurer” to...
Oct 24 2005 // Physicians Insurance A Mutual Company has announced that Robert Nickles has been named vice president of Risk Management. Thomas Kirchmeier, a company employee since 1985, will be retiring from the position in November....
Oct 17 2005 // ALABAMAAIIA Conference, Educational Sessions The Alabama Independent Insurance Agents has scheduled five upcoming seminars in Mobile, Birming-ham and Huntsville.Oct. 19, Small and Rural Agents Conference, two topics,...
Oct 3 2005 // CALIFORNIA ACIC OPPOSES PROPOSED CDI REGULATIONS: The Association of California Insurance Companies recently testified on proposed Department of Insurance regulations. According to Jeff Fuller, executive vice president and...