Latest Oregon Headlines
All the headlines from our Oregon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Family Files $1.27M Wrongful Death Suit Against Oregon Nursing Home
Sep 28 2018 // The family of an 86-year-old woman who died following a fall is suing a nursing home for $1.27 million. The Statesman-Journal reported the wrongful death lawsuit, filed this week in Marion County Circuit Court, accuses the...
Oregon Rental Company Settles for $105k in Living Conditions Suit
Sep 26 2018 // A Portland, Ore. rental management company has agreed to pay $105,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by an ex-tenant who claimed she endured deplorable living conditions. The Oregonian/OregonLive reported the settlement came...
13% Percent Increase in Fatal Crashes on Oregon Roads
Sep 25 2018 // The number of people killed in fatal crashes in Oregon has gone up by 13 percent from last year. The Oregonian/OregonLive reported that the total number of deaths on city streets, freeways and county highways was driven up...
Idaho’s High Court Considering Defamation by Inference Suit
Sep 25 2018 // The Idaho Supreme Court has heard arguments in a case that could determine whether individuals have the right to sue if they think someone implied, but didn’t outright say, something defamatory. The issue arose in a...
Elliott, Powell, Baden & Baker in Oregon Names Beelar Marketing Manager
Sep 21 2018 // Portland, Ore.-based Elliott, Powell, Baden & Baker Insurance agency has named Heather Beelar the firm’s marketing manager. The new position will include identifying and analyzing market trends, and creating...
Oregon Judge Won’t Take Unprecedented Step to Let Animals Sue
Sep 19 2018 // A judge has tossed a lawsuit filed by animal rights activists in the name of a once-neglected horse, finding that animals don’t have a right to sue. The Oregonian/OregonLive reported in doing so, Washington County...
Oregon Sues OxyContin Manufacturer Claiming it Minimized Risks
Sep 17 2018 // Oregon’s attorney general has sued the pharmaceutical company that makes OxyContin, saying it misrepresented the risks and benefits of the drug and lied to a state regulatory agency to maximize profits. A spokesman...
Oregon SAIF Declares Dividends as Workers’ Comp Costs Decrease
Sep 14 2018 // The board of directors of the SAIF, the not-for-profit company providing workers’ comp insurance in Oregon, declared two dividends for customers: a $120 million primary dividend to be paid to SAIF’s...
Oregon Workers’ Comp Costs to Drop Sixth-Straight Year
Sep 11 2018 // Oregon employers next year will pay an average of $1.12 per $100 of payroll for workers’ compensation insurance, down from $1.23 in 2018, under a proposal by the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business...
Family of Boy Who Drowned in Ocean off Oregon Sues City
Sep 11 2018 // The family of an Oklahoma teenager who drowned in the ocean while visiting the Oregon coast has filed a $3.6 million lawsuit against the city of Seaside. The Daily Astorian reported that 14-year-old Conner Miguel Wu Moore,...
Woman Sues University of Oregon for $215K over Concert Injuries
Sep 7 2018 // A woman has filed a lawsuit against the University of Oregon over injuries she claims to have sustained while at a rock concert in 2016. The Register-Guard reporte Anne Holder filed the law suit last week in Lane County...
Solar Projects in Oregon Getting Insurance to Guarantee Production
Aug 31 2018 // GCL New Energy Holdings Ltd. is managing the risk related to the unpredictable nature of the sun, with an insurance-like policy that will guarantee the production from solar projects it’s building in Oregon. KWh...
Dry Fall And Worsening Drought in Oregon Portends Wildfires
Aug 20 2018 // A climate prediction report issued by the National Weather Service says Oregon will remain hot, dry and smoky well into autumn this year. The Statesman Journal reported that forecast in the report released last week means...
Cost of Fighting Wildfires in Oregon Far Ahead of Last Year’s Pace
Aug 10 2018 // The estimated cost of fighting Oregon wildfires this summer stands at more than $180 million. That’s $30 million more than at the same time last year. The Mail Tribune reported that 75 percent of those dollars have...
Insurer Settles Suit Over Toddler Death in Hot Oregon Apartment for $100K
Jul 30 2018 // An insurance company for a Portland apartment complex has agreed to pay $100,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the mother of a 2-year-old girl who died in her bedroom after a heater malfunctioned. In a lawsuit that had...
Oregon School Settles Lawsuit Over Student’s Pro-Trump Shirt
Jul 26 2018 // Lawyers for an Oregon high school student who was disciplined for wearing a T-shirt promoting President Donald Trump’s effort to build a border wall say they have reached a settlement of his lawsuit. The lawyers say...
Court Allows Trial in Children’s Lawsuit Against U.S. Over Climate Change
Jul 23 2018 // A federal appeals court in San Francisco on Friday rejected the Trump administration’s renewed bid to dismiss a lawsuit by young activists who say the U.S. government is ignoring the perils of climate change. By a...
$10M Award to Man Hit By Garbage Truck Reinstated by Oregon Court
Jul 20 2018 // The Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled that a trial judge shouldn’t have reduced a jury’s award to a man whose leg was severed by a garbage truck in downtown Portland. In reinstating the award, the Appeals Court...
Oregon Acknowledges Oversight Lack in Medical Marijuana Program
Jul 16 2018 // How much medical marijuana is in the pipeline in Oregon? The managers of the state’s program concede that they simply don’t know because of lax reporting by producers and a lack of site inspectors. That, they...
Several Lawsuits Allege Racial Profiling in Oregon Businesses
Jun 25 2018 // Several African Americans are suing big-box stores and restaurants in Oregon, claiming employees at those places wrongly accused them of stealing because they were “shopping while black.” A Portland law firm...
