Latest Oregon Headlines
All the headlines from our Oregon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Goughnour Joins Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. in Oregon
Feb 13 2014 // Matt Goughnour has joined Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. as vice president the firm’s Portland, Ore. office. Goughnour will focus on growing and servicing companies in the forest products industry. Goughnour has more than...
$74k Fine For Oregon Company’s Lack Of Fall Protection
Feb 13 2014 // An Oregon construction company has been fined nearly $73,000 for repeatedly not protecting its employees from falls. The fine comes after the state’s Occupational Safety and Health Division cited Woodburn-based...
Oregon, California Among Top for Lasers Pointed Into Cockpits
Feb 13 2014 // Airline pilots and federal officials are launching a campaign to warn the public about the dangers of pointing lasers into cockpits. Some pilots have been temporarily blinded by the powerful beams of light. According to...
Oregon Disaster Agency Issues Revealed in Audit
Feb 12 2014 // Oregon’s emergency management agency may not be well equipped to recover from a major disaster because of a history of leadership problems and an incomplete plan to handle emergencies, according to an audit issued by...
Oregon Judge Lops Big Chunk off $18.6M Jury Award
Feb 1 2014 // An Oregon woman who won nearly $19 million in a lawsuit against Equifax over credit reporting mistakes saw the jury award cut to less than $2 million last week by a federal judge in Portland. Judge Anna J. Brown reduced...
Oregon Lawsuit for $1.5M Over Lost Testicles
Jan 21 2014 // The parents of a young boy are suing Oregon Health & Science University over a surgery that rendered the child’s testicles useless. The Oregonian reports that opening statements in the trial began last week in a...
Flood Maps Still Wrong, Oregon Homeowners Still Paying
Jan 13 2014 // Months after Carol Justice was wrongly told her home needs flood insurance, the Cornelius resident is still paying up – even though a surveyor has since determined her house is not in the flood zone. Justice is one of...
Oregon Gay Bullying Lawsuit Settled for $5,000
Jan 13 2014 // The Eugene School District has paid $5,000 to settle an Oregon lawsuit that accused it of failing to stop students at a middle school from bullying and harassing a boy they perceived as gay. The suit was filed in federal...
Flood Maps Still Wrong, Oregon Homeowners Still Paying
Jan 2 2014 // Months after Carol Justice was wrongly told her home needs flood insurance, the Cornelius resident is still paying up – even though a surveyor has since determined her house is not in the flood zone. Justice is one of...
$700 Million Lawsuit In Oregon Bus Crash
Dec 27 2013 // A British Columbia lawyer representing 12 victims from the 2012 charter bus crash on Interstate 84 near Pendleton filed a lawsuit Monday at the Umatilla County Courthouse seeking $700 million. The East Oregonian reported...
FTC Allows Fidelity National Acquisition of Lender Processing Firm
Dec 27 2013 // Fidelity National Financial Inc., the largest U.S. title insurer, won approval from U.S. antitrust regulators for its $2.9 billion acquisition of Lender Processing Services Inc. The Federal Trade Commission cleared the...
Oregon Gay Bullying Lawsuit Settled for $5,000
Dec 24 2013 // The Eugene School District has paid $5,000 to settle an Oregon lawsuit that accused it of failing to stop students at a middle school from bullying and harassing a boy they perceived as gay. The Eugene Register-Guard...
Oregon City Sued For $2 Million Over Police Shooting
Dec 6 2013 // The family of an 18-year-old who was shot and killed after brandishing a knife at two Medford, Ore. police officers has filed a $2 million wrongful death lawsuit against the city. Family members called police in January...
Oregon Murder-Suicide Lawsuit Blames Chantix Prescriber
Dec 2 2013 // A Eugene, Ore. woman whose husband killed the couple’s son and himself has sued the dentist who prescribed her husband a nicotine-cessation drug and the hospital that determined he was not a danger to himself or...
Oregon Lawsuit: Patients Tested For HIV Without Consent
Dec 2 2013 // Two Oregon residents have sued a health care provider that screened them for HIV without their permission. The Oregonian reported the plaintiffs are asking the judge to approve the suit as a class action, to include the...
Oregon Court Tosses Right to Farm Challenge
Dec 2 2013 // The Oregon Court of Appeals has rejected a constitutional challenge to Oregon’s Right to Farm law, but parties to the case say the question isn’t resolved. The Right to Farm law protects farmers from lawsuits...
Jury Awards $100,000 in Oregon Malpractice Suit
Dec 2 2013 // An Oregon gynecologist who removed a patient’s healthy ovary and left a piece of plastic in her body after a 2007 robotic surgery has been ordered to pay more than $100,000. U.S. District Court jurors convicted Dr....
RiskPoint in Oregon names Schellenberg Managing Principal
Nov 21 2013 // Portland, Ore.-based RiskPoint Insurance Advisors LLC named Blake Schellenberg managing principal. Schellenberg becomes one of four managing principals for RiskPoint. He has experience in insurance, and in several other...
Oregon Court Tosses Right to Farm Challenge
Nov 20 2013 // The Oregon Court of Appeals has rejected a constitutional challenge to Oregon’s Right to Farm law, but parties to the case say the question isn’t resolved. The Capital Press agricultural publication reported...
Jury Awards $100,000 In Oregon Malpractice Suit
Nov 18 2013 // An Oregon gynecologist who removed a patient’s healthy ovary and left a piece of plastic in her body after a 2007 robotic surgery has been ordered to pay more than $100,000. The Mail Tribune newspaper reported that...
