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, Wash., on …
In the coming year Confie Seguros plans to up its buying spree and expand into standard personal and small commercial lines, while broadening its demographic from being primarily Hispanic focused, the president of the Buena Park, Calif.-based insurance agency said …
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 Court lawsuit, Sonia Anderson …
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 decision on Monday. The other states were: …
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 Ashland Daily Tidings reported the suit alleges the …
The former superintendent of an agency that provides services to schools in the central Willamette Valley will get $200,000 to settle a suit over her firing. The Salem Statesman Journal reported that Maureen Casey was dismissed in 2009 after internal …
A developer whose plans to redevelop a sawmill in Sweet Home collapsed has pleaded guilty to accusations that he allowed an unlicensed contractor to demolish a building, releasing asbestos near residential neighborhoods. After the work, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency …
Three police officers in the Portland, Ore. suburb of Beaverton went the extra mile for a hamster found riding in the lap of a driver who was arrested for investigation of DUI. Officer Mike Rowe says 27-year-old Nicole Huey of Beaverton left …
When the big one hits the Oregon coast, people won’t need sirens, say experts – they’ll know by the intense trembling beneath their feet that a tsunami is on the way and it’s time to hustle to high ground. Besides, …
The former business services manager for the Central Point School District in Oregon has filed a $1.4 million lawsuit against the district, alleging she was wrongfully fired. Vicki Robinson’s court documents state she was let go last year because the …
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