Latest Oregon Headlines
All the headlines from our Oregon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oregon Judge Won’t Take Unprecedented Step to Let Animals Sue
Sep 19 2018 // A judge has tossed a lawsuit filed by animal rights activists in the name of a once-neglected horse, finding that animals don’t have a right to sue. The Oregonian/OregonLive reported in doing so, Washington County...
Oregon Sues OxyContin Manufacturer Claiming it Minimized Risks
Sep 17 2018 // Oregon’s attorney general has sued the pharmaceutical company that makes OxyContin, saying it misrepresented the risks and benefits of the drug and lied to a state regulatory agency to maximize profits. A spokesman...
Oregon SAIF Declares Dividends as Workers’ Comp Costs Decrease
Sep 14 2018 // The board of directors of the SAIF, the not-for-profit company providing workers’ comp insurance in Oregon, declared two dividends for customers: a $120 million primary dividend to be paid to SAIF’s...
Oregon Workers’ Comp Costs to Drop Sixth-Straight Year
Sep 11 2018 // Oregon employers next year will pay an average of $1.12 per $100 of payroll for workers’ compensation insurance, down from $1.23 in 2018, under a proposal by the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business...
Family of Boy Who Drowned in Ocean off Oregon Sues City
Sep 11 2018 // The family of an Oklahoma teenager who drowned in the ocean while visiting the Oregon coast has filed a $3.6 million lawsuit against the city of Seaside. The Daily Astorian reported that 14-year-old Conner Miguel Wu Moore,...
Woman Sues University of Oregon for $215K over Concert Injuries
Sep 7 2018 // A woman has filed a lawsuit against the University of Oregon over injuries she claims to have sustained while at a rock concert in 2016. The Register-Guard reporte Anne Holder filed the law suit last week in Lane County...
Solar Projects in Oregon Getting Insurance to Guarantee Production
Aug 31 2018 // GCL New Energy Holdings Ltd. is managing the risk related to the unpredictable nature of the sun, with an insurance-like policy that will guarantee the production from solar projects it’s building in Oregon. KWh...
Dry Fall And Worsening Drought in Oregon Portends Wildfires
Aug 20 2018 // A climate prediction report issued by the National Weather Service says Oregon will remain hot, dry and smoky well into autumn this year. The Statesman Journal reported that forecast in the report released last week means...
Cost of Fighting Wildfires in Oregon Far Ahead of Last Year’s Pace
Aug 10 2018 // The estimated cost of fighting Oregon wildfires this summer stands at more than $180 million. That’s $30 million more than at the same time last year. The Mail Tribune reported that 75 percent of those dollars have...
Insurer Settles Suit Over Toddler Death in Hot Oregon Apartment for $100K
Jul 30 2018 // An insurance company for a Portland apartment complex has agreed to pay $100,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the mother of a 2-year-old girl who died in her bedroom after a heater malfunctioned. In a lawsuit that had...
Oregon School Settles Lawsuit Over Student’s Pro-Trump Shirt
Jul 26 2018 // Lawyers for an Oregon high school student who was disciplined for wearing a T-shirt promoting President Donald Trump’s effort to build a border wall say they have reached a settlement of his lawsuit. The lawyers say...
Court Allows Trial in Children’s Lawsuit Against U.S. Over Climate Change
Jul 23 2018 // A federal appeals court in San Francisco on Friday rejected the Trump administration’s renewed bid to dismiss a lawsuit by young activists who say the U.S. government is ignoring the perils of climate change. By a...
$10M Award to Man Hit By Garbage Truck Reinstated by Oregon Court
Jul 20 2018 // The Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled that a trial judge shouldn’t have reduced a jury’s award to a man whose leg was severed by a garbage truck in downtown Portland. In reinstating the award, the Appeals Court...
Oregon Acknowledges Oversight Lack in Medical Marijuana Program
Jul 16 2018 // How much medical marijuana is in the pipeline in Oregon? The managers of the state’s program concede that they simply don’t know because of lax reporting by producers and a lack of site inspectors. That, they...
Several Lawsuits Allege Racial Profiling in Oregon Businesses
Jun 25 2018 // Several African Americans are suing big-box stores and restaurants in Oregon, claiming employees at those places wrongly accused them of stealing because they were “shopping while black.” A Portland law firm...
Oregon Marijuana Growers Turning to Hemp as CBD Extract Explodes
Jun 18 2018 // A glut of legal marijuana is driving Oregon pot prices to rock-bottom levels, prompting some nervous growers to start pivoting to another type of cannabis to make ends meet, one that doesn’t come with a...
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Jun 18 2018 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has added risk management and insurance professionals Rose Nordbrock, Jeff Breskin, Pabla Barros and Jose Fuentes to the firm’s operations in Southern California. Nordbrock...
Oregon Earthquake Simulation Reveals Dangers
Jun 13 2018 // Researchers at Oregon State University say bridges and roads in the northwestern resort city of Seaside should be prioritized for improvement after a simulation discovered they would have higher mortality rates in an...
SAIF in Oregon Names Former Commissioner Robison Chief Actuarial Officer
Jun 5 2018 // SAIF has named Laura Robison, a former Oregon insurance commissioner, as its chief actuarial officer. The appointment is effective in September. Robison will manage the loss reserving process, oversee ratemaking and rate...
Oregon Recreational Marijuana Growers to Scale Back
Jun 4 2018 // Oregon produced enough recreational cannabis last year to supply every adult resident with more than 5 ounces of legal marijuana. There were more than 1 million pounds in the state’s supply chain. Data provided by...