Latest Oregon Headlines
All the headlines from our Oregon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Construction Liability Costs Hurt Oregon Contractors
May 18 2004 // Soaring construction liability insurance premiums are causing contractors to raise house prices and even leave the business, builders say. Insurance rates for contractors doing commercial construction also have surged, but...
Oregon’s SAIF Releases Evaluation in Response to Concerns
May 17 2004 // Oregon’s State Accident Insurance Fund (SAIF) recently released a 10-point self-evaluation in response to Governor Ted Kulongoski’s concerns about the publicly-owned workers’ compensation insurance...
The Beaver State – No Self-Serve Gas, One-Way Streets, and Ghost Towns
Mar 22 2004 // The United States Census Bureau’s Census 2000 estimated the population of the State of Oregon at 3,421,399. Approximately 85 percent of the adult residents had graduated from high school and about 25 percent had...
Tort Reformers Look to Score in States after Washington Strikes Out
Mar 8 2004 // Last fall at a University of Virginia Law School forum on tort reform, some of the nation’s top tort experts agreed there were no easy answers on how to solve the nation’s longstanding love-hate relationship...
Ore. Governor’s Plan Cuts Rural Doctors’ Professional Liability Insurance Costs
Mar 4 2004 // More than a thousand doctors in rural communities throughout Oregon are going to see reductions of up to eighty percent in their medical professional liability insurance costs this quarter as a result of a state...
Oregon Insurance Division Recognized for Financial Regulation Program
Dec 23 2003 // The Oregon Insurance Division has been recognized for its financial regulation program by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Oregon was one of 10 states to recently receive an accreditation award from the...
Csiszar Named NAIC President for 2004
Dec 8 2003 // During the Winter National Meeting in Anaheim, members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) elected regulators from South Carolina, North Dakota and Oregon to serve as the association’s 2004...
Several Oregon P/C Insurance Measures Signed Into Law
Oct 20 2003 // Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski recently signed several pieces of significant property/casualty insurance legislation, including measures dealing with credit reports, taxes, auto insurance coverage and environmental...
Several Oregon P/C Insurance Measures Signed Into Law
Oct 14 2003 // Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski recently signed several pieces of significant property/casualty insurance legislation, including measures dealing with credit reports, taxes, auto insurance coverage and environmental...
Ore. WC Rates Flat for 2nd Straight Year
Sep 26 2003 // Oregon Governor Theodore Kulongoski announced this week that two state business fees used to pay for workers’ compensation and workplace safety programs will be reduced next year, in part to reflect administrative...
Oregon Drivers Spend Less than Average for Insurance
Aug 22 2003 // Oregonians spend less than the national average for personal automobile insurance, according to a recent report comparing premiums nationwide. The estimated average expenditure for personal auto insurance in Oregon was...
Oregon Credit Bill Passes Legislature, En Route to Gov.
Aug 21 2003 // A bill restricting insurers’ use of credit information for personal lines underwriting and rating passed the Senate Aug. 20 and heads to the Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski’s desk for his...
Credit, Environmental Liability Tops Ore. Issues in 2003 Session
Aug 1 2003 // As the legislative session continues to roll forward in Oregon, Senate bills that would unfairly expand environmental insurance coverage and restrict insurers’ use of credit information are stirring controversy,...
No ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ for Oregon Co.
May 1 2003 // Alabama Insurance Commissioner Walter A. Bell ordered an unlicensed Oregon company marketing medical malpractice insurance to physicians and hospitals in his state to terminate all activities there. The formal cease and...
Over-utilization of Chiro. Care Hurting Calif. WC, AIA Says
Apr 3 2003 // Legislation to curb over-utilization of chiropractic care without physician oversight will help control the skyrocketing medical costs that are jeopardizing California’s workers’ compensation system, said the...
Calif. Workers’ Comp Community Mourns Loss of Alan Tebb
Apr 2 2003 // Alan Tebb, former general manager of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute, the research and education arm of the California workers’ compensation industry, passed away March 31 following a brief...
Over-utilization of Chiro. Care Hurting Calif. WC, AIA Says
Apr 2 2003 // Legislation to curb over-utilization of chiropractic care without physician oversight will help control the skyrocketing medical costs that are jeopardizing California’s workers’ compensation system, said the...
Ore. Orders Company to Halt Selling Insurance
Mar 31 2003 // The Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) has ordered a Canby company to stop selling medical malpractice insurance in Oregon without a license. DCBS issued a cease and desist order March 18 against First...
Trio of Assurex Global Agencies Choose XDimensional Technologies’ Agency Mgt. System
Mar 17 2003 // Nexsure, the industry’s first 100 percent web-architected agency management system based on the Microsoft .NET platform, has been selected as the office automation system by three members of the Assurex partnership...
NAII Opposes Superfluous Credit Bills at Ore. Hearing
Feb 14 2003 // An Oregon regulation addressing credit-based insurance scores should receive a chance to take effect and work before lawmakers consider adopting unnecessary legislation that could prevent consumers from getting the...
