Latest Oregon Headlines
All the headlines from our Oregon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Woodruff-Sawyer Names Kyle Vice President in Oregon
Sep 21 2017 // Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. has named Brandi Kyle vice president in employee benefits in the firm’s Portland, Ore. office. Kyle has 15 years of insurance experience. She was previously with Wells Fargo Insurance as an...
Oregon’s Cellphone And Distracted Driving Law Brings Bigger Fines, Jail
Sep 21 2017 // Oregon drivers soon can be pulled over for not only texting and talking on their cellphones, but also for navigating, using social media and any other “hands-on” cellphone and electronics use. The changes,...
PEMCO Insurance Launching Rideshare Driver Endorsement in Oregon
Sep 18 2017 // Seattle-based PEMCO Insurance launched an auto policy endorsement for rideshare drivers in Oregon in September. The company said the endorsement enhances personal auto policies for rideshare drivers. The product is already...
Oregon Workers’ Comp Costs to Drop for 5th Consecutive Year
Sep 18 2017 // Oregon employers will see a key portion of their workers’ compensation costs drop by an average of 14 percent in 2018, according to the Department of Consumer and Business Services. This marks the fifth year in a row...
Husband’s Death Spurs Widow’s $10M Suit Against Oregon Hospital, Doctors
Sep 18 2017 // The widow of a Eugene, Ore., man who died five days before his 29th birthday seeks $10 million in a lawsuit against a hospital, doctors and physicians’ groups. The suit says Aaron Martineau died in September 2014, a...
Oregon Workers’ Comp Costs to Drop for 5th Consecutive Year
Sep 12 2017 // Oregon employers will see a key portion of their workers’ compensation costs drop by an average of 14 percent in 2018, according to the Department of Consumer and Business Services. This marks the fifth year in a row...
Woodruff-Sawyer Adds Wells Fargo’s Madlener as Vice President in Oregon
Sep 6 2017 // Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. has named Jeanna Madlener vice president, account executive/producer at the firm’s Oregon property/casualty practice. Madlener specializes in risk management and coverage placement for...
Report: Written Premiums for California Comp Insurers to Be Flat Through 2017
Sep 4 2017 // Written premiums from workers’ compensation insurers in California for the year are expected to be flat at $18.1 billion compared with 2016 thanks largely to rate decreases, according to analysts with the...
4,500 Evacuated as Oregon Wildfires Burn
Aug 31 2017 // Wildfires in Oregon are burning an area roughly equivalent to half the state of Rhode Island, affecting air quality throughout the state and forcing the evacuations of more than 4,500 people, fire authorities said on Aug....
PEMCO Insurance Launching Rideshare Driver Endorsement in Oregon
Aug 31 2017 // Seattle-based PEMCO Insurance announced it is introducing its auto policy endorsement for rideshare drivers in Oregon on Sept. 1. The company said the endorsement enhances personal auto policies for rideshare drivers,...
Husband’s Death Spurs Widow’s $10M Suit Against Oregon Hospital, Doctors
Aug 31 2017 // The widow of a Eugene, Oregon, man who died five days before his 29th birthday seeks $10 million in a lawsuit against a hospital, doctors and physicians’ groups. The suit says Aaron Martineau died in September 2014,...
Oregon Wildfires Have Cost Taxpayers More Than $100M in 2017
Aug 30 2017 // Oregon wildfires already have burned nearly 500 square miles this year, as one of the state’s many multimillion-dollar forest fires this season smolders and flares away. The Register-Guard reported the blaze, started...
Woman Suing Oregon Cremation Company for $2.5M over Ashes in Father’s Urn
Aug 25 2017 // A woman is suing an Oregon cremation company for $2.5 million, claiming it gave her the remains of a stranger instead of her deceased father. Kimberly Grecco, 53, discovered the remains were her not her father’s as...
Evacuations Ordered for Hundreds of Residents in California, Oregon
Aug 21 2017 // Evacuation orders affecting hundreds of people were issued in California and Oregon as wildfires neared small towns, including one that’s a prime location for viewing the eclipse. About 600 residents were told to...
Report: Written Premiums for California Comp Insurers to be Flat Through 2017
Aug 17 2017 // Written premiums from workers’ compensation insurers in California for the year are expected to be flat at $18.1 billion compared with 2016 thanks largely to rate decreases, according to analysts with the...
Hub Acquires Assets of Oregon-Based Coordinated Resources Group
Aug 10 2017 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired the assets of Portland, Ore.-based Coordinated Resources Group LLC. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Ruppert Reinstadler and Carol Dobbs, managing partners of CRG, will join Hub...
Oregon’s Cannabis Coast Becoming Home for Legal Pot Dealers
Aug 7 2017 // Eddie Biggar sports a black-and-green suit dotted with tiny green leaves as he dances jovially on a corner of the Pacific Coast Highway. Some two-and-a-half hours southwest of Portland, he owns the sidewalk. Just like a...
Court Rules for NBC in Defamation Suit by Oregon Sporting Goods Company
Aug 7 2017 // A federal appeals court has ruled that NBC News did not defame an Oregon sporting goods company by characterizing its exploding rifle targets as “bombs” in a report on the “Today” show. The 2nd U.S....
Court Rules for NBC in Defamation Suit by Oregon Sporting Goods Company
Jul 26 2017 // A federal appeals court has ruled that NBC News did not defame an Oregon sporting goods company by characterizing its exploding rifle targets as “bombs” in a report on the “Today” show. The 2nd U.S....
$3.1M Sex Abuse Suit Filed by Former Altar Boy Against Oregon Church
Jul 24 2017 // A former altar boy at a Portland, Ore. church has filed a $3.1 million lawsuit against the church contending he was repeatedly sexually abused by a choir director in the early 1960s. The Oregonian/OregonLive reported that...
