All the headlines from our Oregon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 11 2004 // On Nov. 2, citizens of three Western states will decide whether or not to limit damage awards in medical malpractice insurance cases. Nevada, Oregon and Wyoming will join Florida as the four states to consider placing caps...
Oct 11 2004 // SAIF is the big bully in Oregon workers’ comp insurance. It claims corporation status when that is expedient and public entity status when that is more advantageous. Unlike private sector competitors, SAIF cannot be...
Oct 11 2004 // SAIF is the big bully in Oregon workers’ compensation insurance. It claims corporation status when that is expedient and public entity status when that is more advantageous. Unlike private sector competitors, SAIF...
Oct 6 2004 // The battle over a ballot measure to abolish SAIF Corp. has moved into the final month with big spending by supporters and tough talk by Gov. Ted Kulongoski, who has emerged as the top defender of the state-owned...
Sep 30 2004 // Oregon workers’ compensation insurance rates will not increase in 2005, Gov. Ted Kulongoski said September 28.The announcement marks the third straight year without an increase following 12 consecutive years of rate...
Sep 17 2004 // The Archdiocese of Portland is petitioning for a jury trial to force its insurance companies to reimburse part of the $53 million it has paid out in clergy sex-abuse settlements.The complaint was filed this week in U.S....
Sep 13 2004 // Former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt is the target of an expanded investigation into SAIF Corp. that has been joined by a federal prosecutor, according to The Oregonian.The Portland newspaper said in its Sept. 10 editions that the...
Sep 13 2004 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) have elected a slate of three new officers in interim elections held during the 2004 NAIC Fall National Meeting. Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner...
Aug 3 2004 // Victims of medical malpractice would be denied their rights by a limit on damage awards, foes of the idea say, while advocates say the rising cost of malpractice insurance is keeping doctors out of Oregon.For the second...
Aug 2 2004 // New documents reviewed by a Salem newspaper map out how former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt’s deal-brokering helped shape a plan on medical malpractice insurance for obstetricians in rural Oregon.The former governor was...
Jul 22 2004 // The use of loss history reports in underwriting homeowners insurance policies was the subject of seminars held recently in Oregon and Idaho.Sam Sorich, Western Region vice president for the Property Casualty Insurers...
Jul 1 2004 // SAIF Corporation, Oregon’s non-profit workers’ compensation insurance company, announced its newest policyholder, Bear Creek Corporation, Southern Oregon’s largest employer.SAIF will provide...
Jun 17 2004 // Richard Kingsley, owner of Stayton-based Cammack-Kingsley Insurance Inc., has been elected president-elect of the Professional Insurance Agents of Oregon/Idaho, a trade association that represents more than 2,300...
Jun 15 2004 // A proposed ballot measure for the November elections that would dismantle the public company that provides worker compensation insurance could make millions for a Portland attorney and his law firm.Call it the DiLorenzo...
Jun 10 2004 // On June 3, the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) raised concerns about proposed regulations designed to implement a 2003 law that restricts insurers’ use of credit information for reviewing...
May 18 2004 // Soaring construction liability insurance premiums are causing contractors to raise house prices and even leave the business, builders say.Insurance rates for contractors doing commercial construction also have surged, but...
May 17 2004 // Oregon’s State Accident Insurance Fund (SAIF) recently released a 10-point self-evaluation in response to Governor Ted Kulongoski’s concerns about the publicly-owned workers’ compensation insurance...
Mar 22 2004 // The United States Census Bureau’s Census 2000 estimated the population of the State of Oregon at 3,421,399. Approximately 85 percent of the adult residents had graduated from high school and about 25 percent had...
Mar 8 2004 // Last fall at a University of Virginia Law School forum on tort reform, some of the nation’s top tort experts agreed there were no easy answers on how to solve the nation’s longstanding love-hate relationship...
Mar 4 2004 // More than a thousand doctors in rural communities throughout Oregon are going to see reductions of up to eighty percent in their medical professional liability insurance costs this quarter as a result of a state...