Latest Oregon Headlines
All the headlines from our Oregon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
$4M Settlement In Fatal Oregon Bus-Pedestrians Case
Aug 14 2013 // A Portland, Ore.-area transit agency and its bus manufacturer have agreed to pay $4 million to five plaintiffs to resolve lawsuits filed after a TriMet bus hit a group of pedestrians in 2010, killing two and injuring three...
MAPFRE Insurance Expands DriveAdvisor Telematics Program to Oregon
Aug 7 2013 // MAPFRE Insurance has expanded its DriveAdvisor Program to the state of Oregon. DriveAdvisor is a voluntary program that provides an auto insurance discount for customers who elect to use telematics technology to monitor...
Oregon Workers’ Comp Group Avoids Decertification
Aug 7 2013 // Oregon insurance regulators say they’ve stopped moving to decertify a workers’ compensation self-insurance trust after the group increased its security deposit. The Department of Consumer and Business Services...
Court: No Workers’ Comp For Oregon Dock Urinator
Aug 5 2013 // A federal appeals court says an Oregon longshoreman who got drunk on the job, urinated while standing on a dock and then fell 6 feet onto concrete should not get workers’ compensation benefits for his injuries. Gary...
Oregon Man Files Lawsuit Over Inversion Table Tryout
Jul 31 2013 // A second Oregon lawsuit has been filed this month over an inverted therapy table. The tables allow people to hang upside down, strapped to the flat surface, in hopes of relieving pain. The Eugene Register-Guard reported...
Oregon Threatens To Decertify Workers’ Comp Group
Jul 31 2013 // Oregon insurance regulators said that they’ve taken the first steps toward decertifying a workers’ compensation self-insurance trust and will shut it down next week if the employers can’t come up with...
Jury Awards Oregon Woman $18.6M Over Credit Report
Jul 29 2013 // A federal jury in Oregon has awarded $18.6 million to a woman who spent two years unsuccessfully trying to get Equifax Information Services to fix major mistakes on her credit report. The Oregonian reported that the award...
Oregon To Spend $20 Million Promoting Health Law
Jul 26 2013 // Two local folk singers, strumming guitars and crooning about the virtues of Oregon, have become the first tool in a $20 million campaign to convince Oregon’s uninsured to buy health insurance. Musicians Laura Gibson...
Estate of Drowned Washington Teen Files Oregon Lawsuit
Jul 26 2013 // The estate of a drowned Vancouver, Wash., teen has sued the organizers of a summer camp in Oregon, saying they endangered the boy. The lawsuit filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court in Portland seeks $13 million. The...
Oregon Man Charged With Arson in Stagecoach Fire
Jul 25 2013 // Police have arrested a Central Oregon man accused of starting a wildfire that burned a Klamath County cabin and forced the temporary evacuation of about 120 homes. Kelly Parker, 30, of La Pine pleaded not guilty Tuesday...
True-Crime Writer Ann Rule Sues Washington Newspaper
Jul 25 2013 // True-crime author Ann Rule is suing a weekly Seattle newspaper, saying she was defamed in 2011 when the fiance of a convicted killer wrote a lengthy article accusing her of “sloppy storytelling.” The lawsuit,...
Lawsuit Planned In Fluke Oregon Hospital Fire
Jul 24 2013 // The family of a Klamath Falls girl who was burned in a fluke fire at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in Oregon has notified officials of their intent to sue. The Oregonian reported a letter from a lawyer says...
Dividend Declared in Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Liability Program
Jul 23 2013 // Liberty Mutual Insurance recently declared a 5 percent dividend for businesses participating in the Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association Safety Group Dividend Property & Liability Program. The nearly $165,000...
Boy Scouts Sues Insurers to Fund Abuse Settlement
Jul 22 2013 // The Boy Scouts of America sued two insurance companies to try to recoup the costs of a settlement with two former Scouts who were sexually abused. BSA, which is based in Dallas, said in its lawsuit that the insurers...
Oregon Drought Makes Firefighters Nervous
Jul 1 2013 // Firefighters are nervous, and ranchers and farmers are hurting as Malheur County enters summer in drought. Gov. John Kitzhaber has issued drought declarations for four Oregon counties, including Malheur, the Vermont-size...
States Brace for Web Barrage When Obamacare Goes Live Oct. 1
Jul 1 2013 // About 550,000 people in Oregon do not have health insurance, and Aaron Karjala is confident the state’s new online insurance exchange will be able to accommodate them when enrollment under President Barack...
Weather Service Confirms Modest Oregon Tornado
Jun 28 2013 // A National Weather Service spokeswoman says a modest tornado did indeed touch down near the tiny Oregon town of Birkenfeld in the North Oregon Coast Range. The Tuesday afternoon tornado was classified as an EF-0, which...
Oregon Sued Over Foster Abuse In Salem Home
Jun 26 2013 // Lawyers for 11 young children who reportedly suffered sexual abuse at a Salem, Ore., foster home have filed nearly $23 million in lawsuits against the state’s Department of Human Services. The lawsuits represent one...
$6 Million Oregon Jury Award In Agriculture Equipment Injury
Jun 24 2013 // A Multnomah County jury has awarded more than $6 million to a 21-year-old Oregon agricultural worker who was paralyzed from the waist down when his torso was crushed in a hay bale-cutting machine. The jury found that...
Ex-workers Sue Over Pay on Oregon Public Projects
Jun 21 2013 // Former workers on public projects say in a federal court suit in Eugene, Ore. they were underpaid and have asked for more than $3.5 million. The Eugene Register-Guard reported the suit names four former workers as...
