Latest Oregon Headlines
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Oregon Lawsuit for $1.5M Over Lost Testicles
Jan 21 2014 // The parents of a young boy are suing Oregon Health & Science University over a surgery that rendered the child’s testicles useless. The Oregonian reports that opening statements in the trial began last week in a...
Flood Maps Still Wrong, Oregon Homeowners Still Paying
Jan 13 2014 // Months after Carol Justice was wrongly told her home needs flood insurance, the Cornelius resident is still paying up – even though a surveyor has since determined her house is not in the flood zone. Justice is one of...
Oregon Gay Bullying Lawsuit Settled for $5,000
Jan 13 2014 // The Eugene School District has paid $5,000 to settle an Oregon lawsuit that accused it of failing to stop students at a middle school from bullying and harassing a boy they perceived as gay. The suit was filed in federal...
Flood Maps Still Wrong, Oregon Homeowners Still Paying
Jan 2 2014 // Months after Carol Justice was wrongly told her home needs flood insurance, the Cornelius resident is still paying up – even though a surveyor has since determined her house is not in the flood zone. Justice is one of...
$700 Million Lawsuit In Oregon Bus Crash
Dec 27 2013 // A British Columbia lawyer representing 12 victims from the 2012 charter bus crash on Interstate 84 near Pendleton filed a lawsuit Monday at the Umatilla County Courthouse seeking $700 million. The East Oregonian reported...
FTC Allows Fidelity National Acquisition of Lender Processing Firm
Dec 27 2013 // Fidelity National Financial Inc., the largest U.S. title insurer, won approval from U.S. antitrust regulators for its $2.9 billion acquisition of Lender Processing Services Inc. The Federal Trade Commission cleared the...
Oregon Gay Bullying Lawsuit Settled for $5,000
Dec 24 2013 // The Eugene School District has paid $5,000 to settle an Oregon lawsuit that accused it of failing to stop students at a middle school from bullying and harassing a boy they perceived as gay. The Eugene Register-Guard...
Oregon City Sued For $2 Million Over Police Shooting
Dec 6 2013 // The family of an 18-year-old who was shot and killed after brandishing a knife at two Medford, Ore. police officers has filed a $2 million wrongful death lawsuit against the city. Family members called police in January...
Oregon Murder-Suicide Lawsuit Blames Chantix Prescriber
Dec 2 2013 // A Eugene, Ore. woman whose husband killed the couple’s son and himself has sued the dentist who prescribed her husband a nicotine-cessation drug and the hospital that determined he was not a danger to himself or...
Oregon Lawsuit: Patients Tested For HIV Without Consent
Dec 2 2013 // Two Oregon residents have sued a health care provider that screened them for HIV without their permission. The Oregonian reported the plaintiffs are asking the judge to approve the suit as a class action, to include the...
Oregon Court Tosses Right to Farm Challenge
Dec 2 2013 // The Oregon Court of Appeals has rejected a constitutional challenge to Oregon’s Right to Farm law, but parties to the case say the question isn’t resolved. The Right to Farm law protects farmers from lawsuits...
Jury Awards $100,000 in Oregon Malpractice Suit
Dec 2 2013 // An Oregon gynecologist who removed a patient’s healthy ovary and left a piece of plastic in her body after a 2007 robotic surgery has been ordered to pay more than $100,000. U.S. District Court jurors convicted Dr....
RiskPoint in Oregon names Schellenberg Managing Principal
Nov 21 2013 // Portland, Ore.-based RiskPoint Insurance Advisors LLC named Blake Schellenberg managing principal. Schellenberg becomes one of four managing principals for RiskPoint. He has experience in insurance, and in several other...
Oregon Court Tosses Right to Farm Challenge
Nov 20 2013 // The Oregon Court of Appeals has rejected a constitutional challenge to Oregon’s Right to Farm law, but parties to the case say the question isn’t resolved. The Capital Press agricultural publication reported...
Jury Awards $100,000 In Oregon Malpractice Suit
Nov 18 2013 // An Oregon gynecologist who removed a patient’s healthy ovary and left a piece of plastic in her body after a 2007 robotic surgery has been ordered to pay more than $100,000. The Mail Tribune newspaper reported that...
Oregon Toddler’s Family Sues Complex Over Abuse
Nov 14 2013 // Attorneys representing the family of a 3-year-old girl have filed a multi-million lawsuit against the owners and managers of a suburban Portland apartment complex, alleging they failed to protect the child from an abusive...
Oregon Jurors Order Hospital to Pay $2.4 Million
Nov 4 2013 // Jurors in October ordered a Columbia Gorge hospital to pay $2.4 million in compensatory damages to three victims of an anesthesiologist now serving a 23-year sentence for sex abuse and rape. One woman was awarded $700,000,...
Oregonians to Vote on Immigrant Driver’s Licenses
Nov 4 2013 // Oregonians are headed for a statewide vote on a new law that allows immigrants who can’t show they’re in the United States legally to obtain driver’s licenses. Secretary of State Kate Brown’s office...
Oregon Mother Seeks $7.6M In Meatball Choking Death Lawsuit
Oct 31 2013 // The mother of a young Oregon girl who died after choking on a meatball at her preschool is seeking $7.6 million in a lawsuit against the suburban Portland school and its owner. The Oregonian reported that the lawsuit filed...
Oregon Jurors Order Hospital to Pay $2.4 Million
Oct 24 2013 // Jurors on Tuesday ordered a Columbia Gorge hospital to pay $2.4 million in compensatory damages to three victims of an anesthesiologist now serving a 23-year sentence for sex abuse and rape. One woman was awarded $700,000,...
