Latest Oregon Headlines
All the headlines from our Oregon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oregon promotes best practices with IMSA membership
Jan 8 2007 // The Oregon Insurance Division is recognizing the Insurance Marketplace Standards Association as a group that can help to establish “best practices” and promote consumer protection in the state. In a recent...
Fraud Roundup
Jan 8 2007 // Calif. State Fund receives $3 million-plus San Diego Superior Court Judge William H. McAdam has ordered the owners of a San Diego area roofing company to pay $3 million in restitution to California’s State...
Oregon Archdiocese reorganization plan calls for $75 million settlement
Jan 7 2007 // Settling nearly 170 claims of priest sex abuse would cost the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland, Ore., about $75 million under a reorganization plan proposed to end. The plan represents the first bankruptcy in the...
Fraud Roundup
Jan 7 2007 // Calif. State Fund receives $3 million-plus San Diego Superior Court Judge William H. McAdam has ordered the owners of a San Diego area roofing company to pay $3 million in restitution to California’s State...
Oregon Promotes Best Practices with IMSA Membership
Dec 29 2006 // The Oregon Insurance Division is recognizing the Insurance Marketplace Standards Association as a group that can help to establish “best practices” and promote consumer protection in the state. In a recent...
Declarations
Dec 25 2006 // All I want for Christmas is … “On our Christmas wish list is to have somebody come back into the residential artisan contractor market. Pricing has gone way up for small guys in the artisan...
Commissioners, compensation rules, earthquakes made for shaky ground
Dec 25 2006 // In the era when cowboys and gold panners roamed, the West was characterized as a wild yet adventurous place to live. Judging by 2006’s insurance industry headlines, those sentiments don’t seem to have...
Top 10 Stories of the Year – West
Dec 24 2006 // In the era when cowboys and gold panners roamed, the West was characterized as a wild yet adventurous place to live. Judging by 2006’s insurance industry headlines, those sentiments don’t seem to have...
Business Moves
Dec 24 2006 // Oregon Insurance Division, American Standard The Director of the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services Insurance Division reported that American Standard Insurance Company of Wisconsin entered into a...
Oregon Bakery Fined $6,240 After Worker Trapped in Dough
Dec 22 2006 // The owners of a Franz Bakery where a worker nearly suffocated after he was trapped face down in a giant trough of dough have been fined $6,240 for safety violations. Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division...
Oregon Revokes Producer Salcido’s License
Dec 21 2006 // The Director of the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services has revoked the license of nonresident producer Manuel A. Salcido. Salcido has been licensed in Oregon as a nonresident insurance producer from Nov....
Pacific Northwest Storms Cause 14 Deaths, More Than $500 Million in Losses
Dec 20 2006 // The winter storm that struck the Pacific Northwest last week is responsible for 14 deaths and is receiving the unfortunate recognition of the worst winter storm in 13 years, according to catastrophe risk modeling company...
Oregon Archdiocese Reorganization Plan Calls for $75 Million Settlement
Dec 20 2006 // Settling nearly 170 claims of priest sex abuse would cost the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland about $75 million under a reorganization plan proposed to end the first bankruptcy in the nation filed by a...
Portland Archdiocese, Sex Abuse Claimants Agree to Settle
Dec 15 2006 // Nearly all the some 170 people claiming they were sexually abused by priests who once worked in Western Oregon have agreed to settle their lawsuits against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland, a federal judge who...
Oregon Insurance Division Files Action Against American Standard
Dec 14 2006 // The Director of the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services Insurance Division, Cory Steisinger, reported that American Standard Insurance Company of Wisconsin has entered into a stipulation agreement, based on...
Study ranks states on workers’ comp premiums; Alaska highest
Dec 11 2006 // The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) has issued its biennial study on national workers’ compensation premiums, and noted that Alaska has the highest rates of all 50 states and the District...
Study ranks states on workers’ comp premiums; Alaska highest
Dec 10 2006 // The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) has issued its biennial study on national workers’ compensation premiums, and noted that Alaska has the highest rates of all 50 states and the District...
Calif. Association to Oppose Proposed Tax Increase on Oregon Drivers
Dec 6 2006 // Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski is renewing a once-defeated legislative proposal to impose a new sales tax on Oregon drivers that will raise auto insurance premiums by millions of dollars, according to Kenton Brine, Northwest...
Oregon insurance division to sponsor five bills
Nov 20 2006 // Oregon’s Insurance Division said it will introduce five bills in the state Legislature’s upcoming session, which convenes in January 2007. Following is a summary of legislation the Insurance Division plans to...
Oregon defeats Measure 42; insurers can continue to use credit scores
Nov 20 2006 // Oregon voters rejected Measure 42 — which would have banned the use of credit-based insurance scoring — by nearly a two-to-one margin of 65.58 percent to 34.42 percent in November’s election. The...
