Latest Oregon Headlines
All the headlines from our Oregon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Liberty Northwest Returns More Than $3.7 Million To Oregon Restaurateurs
Aug 28 2008 // Portland, Ore.-based Liberty Northwest, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, announced strong return results for its Liberty Northwest/Oregon Restaurant Association (LNW/ORA) workers’ compensation...
Oregon Doctors Upset Over Change in Workers’ Comp Rules
Aug 25 2008 // Health care providers all over Oregon say they’ll have to drop workers’ compensation cases, after a change in how they are paid to care for those injured on the job. The temporary rule, imposed July 7, 2008,...
Oregon Adopts Declaration of Emergency Order Rules
Aug 21 2008 // The Oregon Insurance Division recently adopted rules implementing legislation (HB 3605) enacted in the 2008 special session, which authorized the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services, in the event...
Brown & Brown Acquires Oregon-based Fullerton & Company
Aug 1 2008 // Florida-based Brown & Brown Inc. announced the stock acquisition of and Fullerton & Company Inc., of Portland, Ore. Fullerton & Company has annualized revenues of approximately $9.3 million, the announcement...
Oregon Insurance Division Offers Industry Training
Jul 30 2008 // Oregon Insurance Division – Rates & Forms unit is hosting an industry training day on Sept. 15, 2008. The discussion will include current legislative changes, filing requirements and helpful filing tips....
Liberty Northwest Declares Dividend For Oregon Restaurant Program Participants
Jul 24 2008 // The Liberty Northwest Board of Directors recently declared a 10 percent dividend of premiums earned for restaurants participating in the Oregon Restaurant Association (ORA) Safety Group Dividend Property & Liability...
Finding Doctor Tougher With Oregon Ruling
Jul 18 2008 // A new workers’ compensation ruling by the state may make it a little toughter to find a doctor to treat injuries on the job. Doctors, physical therapists and other medical providers have been firing e-mails at the...
Pennsylvania Senate Finally Approves Ario as Insurance Commissioner
Jul 7 2008 // The Pennsylvania Senate in a July 3 roll call vote unanimously approved Joel S. Ario to become the state’s insurance commissioner, a year after Gov. Ed Rendell first nominated the former chief insurance regulator in...
Unitrin Specialty & Red Shield Insurance Company Form Marketing Venture
Jul 3 2008 // July 3 2008 – Unitrin Specialty and Red Shield Insurance Company announced today that the two companies have formed a marketing relationship that will benefit both company’s appointed agents in Oregon and...
Oregon Publishes Annual Insurance Complaint Statistics
Jun 24 2008 // Oregon’s Department of Consumer and Business Services Insurance Division has published the 2007 Annual Complaint Statistics, ranking major insurers based on their complaint records in six common lines of insurance:...
Oregon Amends Licensing Examination Fee Rules
Jun 16 2008 // The Oregon Insurance Division has amended rules to reduce fees for license examinations and reexaminations for insurance producers, adjusters and insurance consultants, and to change the biennial renewal date for...
Oregon/Idaho Profesional Insurance Agents Association Elects Officers
Jun 13 2008 // The Professional Insurance Agents of Oregon/Idaho Gary Steffen, vice president of Safe and Sound Insurance in Gladstone, Ore., and Amigos Aseguranzas in Portland, Ore., as the association president. He will serve as the...
Oregon Jury Awards More than $14.5 Million in Patent Dispute
Jun 13 2008 // A federal jury ordered a medical equipment manufacturer to pay more than $14.5 million in a patent infringement dispute that involves a device invented by a Portland, Ore. physician. Dr. John O. Hayhurst and Smith &...
U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Philip Morris $79M Damages Appeal
Jun 10 2008 // The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it would hear a Philip Morris USA appeal seeking to overturn a $79.5 million punitive damages award won by the widow of a longtime Oregon smoker. The justices agreed to review a...
Oregon Amends Rules Regarding Licensing Examination Fees
Jun 4 2008 // The Oregon Insurance Division has amended rules to reduce fees for license examinations and reexaminations for insurance producers, adjusters and insurance consultants, and to change the biennial renewal date for...
Oregon Collision Shops Give State Farm High Customer Service Marks
Jun 2 2008 // State Farm and smaller Northwest insurers are among the best at taking care of customers after an accident. Some larger insurers — Progressive, Allstate, Safeco and Farmers Insurance — are among the worst. That was the...
Oregon Collision Shops Give State Farm High Customer Service Marks
May 27 2008 // State Farm and several smaller Northwest-based auto insurers continue to be among the best at taking care of their customers after an accident. And some of the other larger, best-known insurers –including...
Heffernan Insurance Appoints Versoza VP
May 21 2008 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers has appointed Tino Versoza vice president of Financial Services, in its Portland, Ore., office. Versoza has 15 years experience in the medical benefits industry in the Portland area, most...
35 Oregon Workers Died on Job in 2007
May 19 2008 // There were 35 workers who died in accidents on the job in Oregon last year, the third-lowest total in state history. The state began tracking workplace deaths in 1943, averaging 81 per year in the 1980s and falling to 55 a...
Trucking Under the Influence
May 19 2008 // Number of Drug and Alcohol Abusing Truckers Unknown It is estimated that somewhere between 1 percent and 10 percent of drivers of commercial or “big rig” trucks are operating under the influence of drugs or...
