Latest Oregon Headlines
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Oregon Woman Hit by Errant Golf Ball Sues Course
Jun 8 2015 // A California woman and her husband seek $900,000 in a lawsuit alleging she suffered serious injuries when struck by an errant golf ball while visiting the Oregon coast two summers ago. The suit filed last week in Portland...
Former Railway Workers File Asbestos Suit Against BNSF in Oregon
Jun 5 2015 // Three former employees have sued BNSF Railway, claiming they suffer from lung disease caused by job-related exposure to asbestos. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in Portland, Ore. says the men had to work with and around items...
Oregon Husband of Pregnant Woman Killed in Crash Sues For $18M
Jun 4 2015 // The husband and the son of a pregnant woman who died in a rollover crash seek up to $18 million in a wrongful death lawsuit filed against three businesses, including the maker of a tire that blew during an Oregon...
M5.8 And M5.5 Quakes Strike Off Oregon Coast, No Damage
Jun 2 2015 // Two sizeable earthquakes struck off the coast of Oregon on Monday but officials say no tsunamis were triggered. A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck at 12:52 a.m. and a second quake measuring magnitude 5.5 hit at 4:46 a.m....
Suit Filed Over Oregon Worker Who Died After Using Bucket as Toilet
Jun 1 2015 // Relatives of an Oregon worker who died from carbon monoxide poisoning while defecating in the back of a company truck seek $4 million in a lawsuit filed against the man’s former employer and four other companies. The...
Insurance Center for Building Materials Expands into Washington, Oregon, Nevada
May 29 2015 // The Insurance Centre for Building Materials (ICBM), a specialist managing general agent focused on building materials dealers, wood risks and secondary forest products, is now available in the primary wood growing and...
Oregon Hash Oil Maker Burned in Blast Sues Butane Businesses
May 26 2015 // A Portland, Ore. man burned when a hash oil operation exploded has filed an $11 million product liability suit against makers and distributors of the butane canisters he was using. The suit says 28-year-old Kevin Tveisme...
Suit Filed Over Oregon Worker Who Died After Using Bucket as Toilet
May 15 2015 // Relatives of an Oregon worker who died from carbon monoxide poisoning while defecating in the back of a company truck seek $4 million in a lawsuit filed against the man’s former employer and four other companies. The...
NORCAL Expands Medical Professional Liability Coverage to Oregon
May 13 2015 // NORCAL Mutual Insurance Co., a medical professional liability insurance provider, is now offering coverage to physicians and healthcare professionals in Oregon with protection for certain data breaches, cyber liability and...
Banks Keep Distance from Marijuana Business and Its Unbanked Billions
May 12 2015 // The U.S. government has opened a new line of business for America’s biggest banks, and for once they don’t want it. Little wonder: it’s cash from legalized marijuana. The financial-crimes arm of the...
Car Smashes Into Oregon Insurance Agency, Injures 2
May 8 2015 // Two men were hospitalized after one drove his car through an insurance agency’s front window in southeast Portland, Ore. KPTV-TV reported that surveillance video shows a white ford focus accelerating as it goes...
Teacher Scared by Gunman in Drill Sues Oregon District for PTSD
Apr 23 2015 // A former grade school teacher in eastern Oregon says she was so scared when a man burst into her classroom and pulled the trigger on the pistol he pointed at her face that she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder...
People – West
Apr 20 2015 // Hub International Insurance Services Inc. has promoted Gay Catherine Chung to senior vice president and client director and Arturo Perez-Reyes to senior vice president and cyber-group leader of the executive liability...
Ex-Daimler Engineer Files $2 Million Discrimination Suit in Oregon
Apr 17 2015 // An Egyptian-born engineer is the latest worker to sue Portland, Ore.-based Daimler Trucks North America. The Oregonian reported the former employee seeks $2 million, alleging his supervisor often called him “bin...
Pacific Northwest Study Says More Could Survive Tsunami if They Can Just Walk Faster
Apr 15 2015 // About 5,500 more people could survive a major tsunami hitting the Pacific Northwest if they just walk a little faster to higher ground after roads are knocked out, a new study shows. The report published Monday in the...
Uber Close to Return in Oregon City With Regulations
Apr 10 2015 // Months after suspending operations in Portland, Uber is on the verge of the returning to the city and operating under regulations. The city’s Private For-Hire Innovation Task Force released details this week of a...
Carpenter Joins Leavitt Group in Oregon
Apr 10 2015 // Leavitt Group has hired Paul Carpenter in its Portland, Ore. office. Carpenter specializes in commercial insurance. He has more than 15 years of experience managing teams and agencies in the life, individual and group...
Ban on Fracking in Oregon to 2025 Under Consideration by Committee
Apr 9 2015 // The oil and gas industry is pushing back on a bill that would ban hydraulic fracturing in Oregon until 2025. The bill sponsor, Democratic Rep. Ken Helm, told a House committee Tuesday the proposal puts the state ahead of...
Oregon State Fund Names Barnett President and CEO
Apr 8 2015 // The board of directors of SAIF Corp. in Oregon on Wednesday named Kerry Barnett as the workers’ compensation insurer’s new president and CEO. Barnett has worked for Cambia Health Solutions, formerly The Regence...
Oregon Committee Hears Bill to Increase Speed Limit
Apr 7 2015 // Oregonians could begin flying along certain highways at 75 mph after lawmakers heard testimony Friday on a bill upping speed limits from 65 mph on interstate highways. Under the proposal, passenger cars would be able to go...
