Latest Oregon Headlines
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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...
Fire Destroys 3 Mobile Homes in Oregon, 2 Were Uninsured
Jul 20 2017 // A fire southeast of Eugene, Ore., destroyed three mobile homes and sent a man to a Portland hospital. Residents of the mobile home park tell The Register-Guard that two dogs and four cats died. The fire happened Monday at...
Alliant Names Laing a Producer in Oregon
Jun 28 2017 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has named Andrew Laing a producer within the company’s Alliant Americas middle market division. Laing will be based in Portland, Ore. and be responsible for the design and delivery of...
Weed Warning: Legalizing Marijuana Tied to Rise in Crashes in 3 States by HLDI
Jun 23 2017 // Legalizing recreational marijuana use in Colorado, Oregon and Washington has resulted in collision claim frequencies that are about three percent higher overall than would have been expected without legalization, a new...
Regulator Fines Contractor Following Oregon Bridge Incident
Jun 21 2017 // A contractor has been fined nearly $200,000 for violations discovered after two workers were injured in a mishap on Portland, Ore.’s Ross Island Bridge. Oregon OSHA announced the penalty Monday, following an...
States May Seize U.S. Climate Change Leadership Following Trump’s Paris Exit
Jun 2 2017 // State governors and city mayors were quick to claim the mantle of U.S. leadership in fighting climate change after President Donald Trump said on Thursday the country will pull out of the Paris climate agreement. The...
