Latest Oregon Headlines
All the headlines from our Oregon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oregon insurance division to sponsor five bills
Nov 19 2006 // Oregon’s Insurance Division said it will introduce five bills in the state Legislature’s upcoming session, which convenes in January 2007. Following is a summary of legislation the Insurance Division plans to...
News Currents
Nov 19 2006 // Oregon defeats Measure 42; insurers can continue to use credit scores Oregon voters rejected Measure 42 — which would have banned the use of credit-based insurance scoring — by nearly a two-to-one margin of...
Crescent City Harbor Suffers Up To $700K in Tsunami Damages
Nov 17 2006 // The National Weather Service lifted a tsunami advisory hours before powerful waves damaged docks and tore boats from their moorings in Northern California. Forecasters said they were wary of causing chaos along the...
Third Death Confirmed After Record Rain in Pacific Northwest
Nov 10 2006 // The body of a 78-year-old woman who disappeared on a storm-battered beach was found, the third confirmed death from storms in the Pacific Northwest that smashed rainfall records and damaged hundreds of homes, authorities...
Oregon Voters Defeat Credit Scoring Ballot Measure
Nov 8 2006 // Oregon voters rejected Measure 42 — which would have banned the use of credit-based insurance scoring — by nearly a two-to-one margin of 65.58 percent to 34.42 percent — in yesterday’s election. The...
Oregon Insurance Division To Sponsor Five Bills in 2007 Session
Nov 8 2006 // Oregon’s Insurance Division announced plans to introduce five bills in the state Legislature’s upcoming session, which convenes in January 2007. Following is a summary of legislation the Insurance Division...
Oregon Election: Blocking Credit Scoring Initiative a Top Priority
Nov 7 2006 // Defeating an Oregon ballot measure that would ban using credit scoring to set insurance rates has become a top priority for the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) and other insurance industry...
Supreme Court to Revisit: How Much Punitive Damages is Enough?
Nov 2 2006 // Jesse Williams, according to his widow, never gave any credence to the surgeon general’s health warnings about smoking cigarettes. When Williams contracted inoperable lung cancer after smoking two packs a day for 45...
Sharing Power Seen as Option for Evenly Split Oklahoma Senate
Oct 30 2006 // Democratic and Republican state Senate leaders in Oklahoma may follow the lead of their counterparts in other states and share power if the chamber has a tie in membership after the Nov. 7 general election, officials...
Esurance Seeks to Grow in Oregon
Oct 26 2006 // Esurance, a direct-to-consumer personal auto insurance company, announced the launch of its auto insurance program in Oregon. Gary Tolman, Esurance President & CEO, stated, “We think Oregon drivers will...
Oregon Hosts Wildfire Summit Workshops in November
Oct 20 2006 // The Oregon Department of Forestry and Office of the STate Fire Marshall, in partnership with Allstate Insurance Co., is offering workshops for insurance producers on wildfires. Sessions will be held from 8:15 a.m. to 3:15...
People and Places
Oct 9 2006 // Ernie Csiszar resigned from the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America. PCI has launched a national search for a new CEO. June Holmes, PCI’s current chief operating officer, will serve as the interim...
Oregon employers to pay less for workers’ compensation in 2007
Oct 9 2006 // Oregon will reduce the workers’ compensation pure premium rate by 2.1 percent for 2007, maintaining Oregon’s streak of not raising the rate in 16 years, Gov. Ted Kulongoski recently announced. “No other...
Oct 9 2006 // People Ernie Csiszar resigned from the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America. PCI has launched a national search for a new CEO. June Holmes, PCI’s current chief operating officer, will serve as the...
Oregon employers to pay less for workers’ compensation in 2007
Oct 9 2006 // Oregon will reduce the workers’ compensation pure premium rate by 2.1 percent for 2007, maintaining Oregon’s streak of not raising the rate in 16 years, Gov. Ted Kulongoski recently announced. “No other...
Oregon Employers To Pay Less for Workers’ Comp in 2007
Sep 28 2006 // Oregon will reduce the workers’ compensation “pure” premium rate by 2.1 percent for 2007, Governor Ted Kulongoski announced, maintaining Oregon’s streak of not raising the rate in 16...
Investigators Trace Specific Batch of Tainted Spinach
Sep 27 2006 // Test results linking two bags of Dole brand baby spinach to a deadly E. coli strain have helped health officials hone in on a specific batch from a San Juan Bautista, Calif., processing plant that may be the source of a...
Oregon voters to decide on credit scoring for insurance
Sep 25 2006 // Insurance companies can use a person’s gender and age to determine what they pay for insurance. Oregon voters will decide in November if insurers should be able to use a person’s financial history too. In 2003,...
People and Places
Sep 25 2006 // Miami insurance agent Alex Soto has been inaugurated as the new president of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big “I”), with Robert E. Fulwider assuming the office of...
