Latest Oregon Headlines
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Oregon Bill Boosts Aid for Kin of Killed Workers
Feb 19 2009 // The Oregon Senate has voted to increase the amount of compensation paid to the families of workers killed on the job. Senate Bill 110 increases aid to the college-age children of single parents who lose that parent in a...
Oregon Senate Panel Approves Higher Liability Caps
Feb 17 2009 // Lawsuits against Oregon state and local governments could get bigger under a bill approved by the Oregon Senate Judiciary Committee. The proposal, Senate Bill 311, would increase government liability caps to boost the...
More Plaintiffs Join Abuse Lawsuit Against Jesuits
Feb 10 2009 // Twenty Alaska Natives have joined a lawsuit claiming they were abused by Jesuit priests or those supervised by Jesuits, and a lawyer said the head of the Roman Catholic order has been served with court papers naming him as...
Quirk & Co. Targets Expansion in Northwest
Feb 9 2009 // Quirk & Co., an insurance wholesaler headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, with branch offices in Austin, Dallas, and Atlanta, recently named Merry Palmer manager of the Pacific Northwest Lines Team and Cheri Bahmanyar...
Oregon Bill Evaluates Merits of Re-Rating Insurance/Credit Score
Feb 9 2009 // The Oregon Legislature is considering a bill that would prohibit an insurer that issues personal insurance policies in the state to cancel, or non-renew a policy after evaluating the individual’s credit history or...
Oregon Legislature Weighs Increase in Motor Vehicle Liaiblity Coverage
Feb 6 2009 // The Oregon House is evaluating a bill, HB 2326, that would increase the amount of motor vehicle liability coverage required for property damage and certain personal injury protection benefits. According to bill text, PIP...
Priests Accused of Sex Abuse in Alaska
Jan 16 2009 // The Jesuit order has been sued by 43 Alaska Natives who say they were sexually abused as children, and mounting evidence shows that known pedophile priests were sent to the Fairbanks, Alaska, Diocese for decades, a lawyer...
Oregon Nursery Damage Put at $18 Million to $31 Million
Jan 12 2009 // Damage estimates to Oregon’s nursery stock industry from late December storms suffered by 160 growers in 12 counties range from $18 million to $31 million in a survey conducted by the Oregon Association of...
Oregon Producers Face Fingerprint Rules
Jan 11 2009 // The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services Insurance Division adopted new insurance producer fingerprint rules on Dec. 9, 2008. Rules OAR 836-072-0001 to 836-072-0045 were designed to protect consumers from...
Oregon Reminds Insurance Producers of Fingerprint Rules
Dec 29 2008 // The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services, Insurance Division, is reminding insurance producers of new fingerprint rules that were adopted on Dec. 9, 2008. According to DCBS, the rules OAR 836-072-0001 to...
Oregon Doctors Win Workers Compensation Billing Dispute
Dec 22 2008 // Oregon doctors have won a major dispute with insurance companies over worker compensation billing. The state Workers Compensation Division has issued a permanent rule forbidding insurers from unilaterally taking discounts...
Collaboration With Insurance Agents Aids in State Regulation
Nov 5 2008 // The property/casualty insurance marketplace could not function without insurance agents and brokers. Consequently, it’s important for state regulators to work with agents within their states. Recently, several...
Oregon Organic Farmer Warns of Genetic Contamination
Nov 3 2008 // An organic farmer from Philomath, Ore., says he plans a legal challenge to genetically modified crops because he fears contamination. Frank Morton says he is concerned about modified sugar beet seeds that scientists with...
Oregon Insurance Division Administrator Kipper Steps Down
Nov 2 2008 // Oregon’s Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) announced that Scott Kipper, administrator of the Insurance Division, left his position on Oct. 31, 2008, to pursue other interests. Yet before he left,...
Northwest Could Learn From 2004 Indonesian Tsunami
Oct 31 2008 // The tsunami that killed 230,000 people in 2004 was the biggest in the Indian Ocean in some 600 years, and it has lessons for the Pacific Northwest, geologists said. Geologists say the long gap between tsunamis in the...
Oregon Proposes Sharing Wildfire Costs
Oct 22 2008 // The only sure things about wildfires is that they will cost more to put out than they used to and that they remain as unpredictable as ever. Hotter, drier summers, rising labor and equipment costs, buildup of forest fuels...
Oregon Insurance Division Administrator Kipper Stepping Down
Oct 21 2008 // The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) announced that Scott Kipper, administrator of the Insurance Division, will be leaving his position effective Oct. 31, 2008, to pursue other...
Oregon Launches Web site for Finance Questions
Oct 14 2008 // The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services has launched a Web site to help address concerns about the security of personal finances. The Web page addresses common questions about insurance policies, bank and...
Oregon Revokes Insurance Agent License
Sep 24 2008 // The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) recently revoked the licenses of a Portland insurance agent and her agency, and fined the agent $43,714 for misappropriating clients’ premium money,...
Oregon Workers’ Compensation Costs To Decrease About 6%
Sep 15 2008 // Employers in Oregon will pay nearly 6 percent less on average for workers’ compensation coverage in 2009, the Department of Consumer and Business Services announced. The reduction in the workers’ compensation...
