Latest Oregon Headlines
All the headlines from our Oregon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oregon High Court Says Cab Company Workers Aren’t Independent Contractors
Dec 14 2015 // The Oregon Supreme Court ruled last week that a Portland taxicab company must pay unemployment insurance taxes for certain drivers because they were improperly classified as independent contractors. The case comes amid...
Fire-Damaged Oregon Forests Vulnerable to Landslides: Scientists
Dec 10 2015 // Scientists say the fire-damaged forests are more susceptible to landslides, and another week of rain and snow could heighten that risk for eastern Oregon. The East Oregonian reported that wildfires have stripped away...
New Rules to Govern Taxis, Uber, Lyft Approved by Oregon City
Dec 8 2015 // Ridesharing services such as Uber and Lyft should continue to operating in Portland, Ore. after the City Council approved a new set of rules to govern taxis. The Oregonian reported that the council voted last week to allow...
Red Shield Names Tufts Underwriting Department Manager in Oregon
Dec 8 2015 // Red Shield Insurance Co. has named Kevin Tufts an underwriting department manager in Portland, Ore. Tufts has 21 years of experience in commercial lines underwriting. He started his insurance career as a workers’...
Volunteer Beaten at Oregon Women’s Shelter Seeks $675K
Dec 7 2015 // A volunteer seeks $675,000 in a lawsuit against the Gospel Rescue Mission of Grants Pass, Ore., alleging it failed to protect her from an enraged man whose wife and daughter were at a women’s shelter. The lawsuit and...
Veteran Files Suit Against Oregon College for Discrimination
Dec 3 2015 // A retired Army officer who worked in the ROTC office at the University of Portland in Oregon has filed a lawsuit claiming his co-workers discriminated against him because of disabilities he suffered in combat in Iraq and...
Volunteer Beat at Oregon Women’s Shelter Seeks $675K
Nov 23 2015 // A volunteer seeks $675,000 in a lawsuit against the Gospel Rescue Mission of Grants Pass, Ore. alleging it failed to protect her from an enraged man whose wife and daughter were at a women’s shelter. The lawsuit and...
Student Sues Pacific University in Oregon for $3M Following Rape
Nov 19 2015 // A 20-year-old Pacific University student who says another student raped her has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Oregon university. The Oregonian reported that the lawsuit says the rape occurred after both students...
University of Oregon Sued by 2 Ex-Counseling Center Workers
Nov 13 2015 // Two former University of Oregon counseling center employees say they were shunned, criticized and threatened with dismissal at the UO after they blew the whistle on superiors who had seized a student’s therapy...
After ‘Deep Cleaning,’ Chipotle Restaurants to Reopen in Seattle, Portland
Nov 11 2015 // Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. is preparing to reopen 43 restaurants in the Pacific Northwest that have been closed for more than a week after an E. coli outbreak sickened dozens of customers. No cause of the outbreak has...
Estate of Oregon Man Files Suit Against Home Care Agency in Death
Nov 2 2015 // The estate of a La Pine, Ore., man who was paralyzed from the chest down has filed a lawsuit seeking $7.5 million in damages from a Bend home health care agency over his death. The estate of Mitchell Cox filed the lawsuit...
Deputy Sues Oregon Restaurant After Being Asked to Prepay
Oct 30 2015 // An Oregon sheriff’s deputy has filed a lawsuit against the Elmer’s restaurant chain, claiming he was told to prepay for his meal at a Vancouver, Ore. establishment because he is black. KGW-TV reported Brian...
West Coast Towns Vulnerable to Tsunamis Consider Ways to Save Lives
Oct 28 2015 // Bracing for a tsunami like the one that devastated Japanese communities during a 2011 mega-earthquake, coastal communities from British Columbia to California have been grappling with how to protect people from a similar...
Estate of Oregon Man Files Suit Against Home Care Agency in Death
Oct 23 2015 // The estate of a La Pine man who was paralyzed from the chest down has filed a lawsuit seeking $7.5 million in damages from a Bend home health care agency over his death. The estate of Mitchell Cox filed the lawsuit in...
Family of Oregon Girl Who Died in 2014 Plane Crash Sues Manufacturer
Oct 21 2015 // The family of a 4-year-old girl who died when the homebuilt airplane she was riding in crashed in Toledo is suing the plane’s manufacturer. The Oregonian reported the suit against Van’s Aircraft of Aurora seeks...
Oregon Clinic Slapped With $2.2M Wrongful Death Suit
Oct 20 2015 // An Oregon clinic is facing a negligence lawsuit from the family of an Oregon woman who died four days after a procedure meant to relieve her migraine headaches. The Eugene Register-Guard reported that the family of...
Oregon Insurance Co-Op Health Republic Closing
Oct 19 2015 // Health Republic Insurance, one of two nonprofit insurers created in Oregon under President Barack Obama’s health care law, announced that it is shutting down. Health Republic will continue to pay claims through the...
University of Oregon Sorority Kitchen Worker Files Suit over Termination
Oct 19 2015 // A former kitchen worker at a University of Oregon sorority house is suing the Alpha Xi chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta over her alleged wrongful termination. Noel Roberts filed the suit in mid-October for at least $50,000 in...
Esurance Launches Mileage-Based Insurance Policy in Oregon
Oct 19 2015 // Esurance has launched a new mileage-based insurance offering called Esurance Pay Per Mile, available first to Oregon drivers. Eric Madia, auto products vice president at Esurance, said the through the program customers...
Girl’s Family Sues Oregon School over Alleged Seclusion Room Incident
Oct 14 2015 // A lawsuit filed last week accuses Oregon’s Springfield School District of holding a then-7-year-old girl in a 6-foot-by-8-foot seclusion room for having a “meltdown” in class. The $300,000 lawsuit, filed...
