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Jun 19 2005 // High court agrees to hear appeal in $80 million tobacco case settlement The Supreme Court said this month it will decide if tobacco giant Philip Morris must pay nearly $80 million in damages to the family of a longtime...
Ocasek Describes Stamping Office Operations at AAMGA University
Jun 6 2005 // Illinois’ surplus line association chief offered a history and overview of the group’s activities in a presentation to the 9th annual meeting of the American Association of Managing General Agents in Orlando,...
Compromise Plan on Oregon MalpracticeDamages Drawing Concerns
Jun 6 2005 // After months of talks by doctors, attorneys and legislators, a compromise plan on limited court damages to medical negligence victims may have emerged. But the proposal, which is getting an airing in the state Senate, is...
Ocasek Describes Stamping Office Operations at AAMGA University
Jun 6 2005 // Illinois’ surplus line association chief offered a history and overview of the group’s activities in a presentation to the 9th annual meeting of the American Association of Managing General Agents in Orlando,...
Compromise Plan on Oregon Malpractice Damages Drawing Concerns
Jun 6 2005 // After months of talks by doctors, attorneys and legislators, a compromise plan on limited court damages to medical negligence victims may have emerged. But the proposal, which is getting an airing in the state Senate, is...
Compromise Plan on Oregon Malpractice Damages Drawing Concerns
Jun 6 2005 // After months of talks by doctors, attorneys and legislators, a compromise plan on limited court damages to medical negligence victims may have emerged. But the proposal, which is getting an airing in the state Senate, is...
Ore. Fire Season Opens Wet and Cool
Jun 3 2005 // The fire season opened cool and damp around parts of Oregon on Wednesday, after early fears that the winter drought would produce a severe wildfire season. Meanwhile, the Oregon Department of Forestry is shifting money...
NAIS Now Writing in Oregon
Jun 2 2005 // Clifford Mapes, president and CEO of Tustin, Calif.-based National Advantage Insurance Services Inc., recently announced that he has been appointed and approved for writing several of his popular insurance products in the...
Suriano-Williams Benefits Group Joins Woodruff-Sawyer Oregon
May 11 2005 // Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. announced that Suriano-Williams’ benefits practice has joined its Oregon Benefits group. Helen “Willy” Suriano-Williams will serve as a senior benefits consultant. In this role,...
PIA Western Alliance Names First Board of Directors
Apr 14 2005 // The PIA Western Alliance Board of Directors has elected its first set of officers. Formed in October of 2004, the Board of Directors consists of two officers from each of the four affiliate chapters that make up the...
Oregon Governor Suggests Insurance Fee to Pay for State Police
Mar 7 2005 // Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski said he has asked the Legislature to look into adding a surcharge on vehicle insurance to raise money for State Police patrols. “I think it is a perfect fit,” the governor...
Ck Specialty Expands Into Oregon
Feb 23 2005 // Ck Specialty Insurance Associates Inc., a surplus line broker and managing general agent, has expanded operations into Oregon with a new office in Sherwood, just south of Portland in Washington County. Ck Specialty offers...
Former President of Oregon’s SAIF Accused of Violating Law on Lobbyists
Feb 22 2005 // A new state ethics report concludes that former SAIF Corp. President Katherine Keene violated Oregon law by failing to register as a lobbyist and report her expenses. The 35-page report released Feb. 18 by the Oregon...
Oregon Governor gets SAIF Report
Feb 17 2005 // The SAIF Corp. needs more diversity in its work force and better systems for awarding contracts and handling public records, according to an initial report by the interim president of the state-owned workers’...
Washington’s Workers’ Comp Rates Rank in Lowest One-Third in U.S.
Dec 30 2004 // A new rate-comparison study shows that workers’ compensation rates in Washington remain among the lowest in the nation. The 2004 “Workers’ Compensation Premium Rate Ranking” study by the Oregon...
Marsh to Refund Overcharges to Seven Oregon Schools
Dec 20 2004 // The scandal engulfing the world’s largest insurance brokerage firm has reached Oregon. The Portland office of insurance broker Marsh USA–the firm at the center of a corruption investigation in New...
Looking Back on ’04: The Most Talked-About Stories in the Western Region
Dec 20 2004 // The year 2004 saw a little bit of everything across the Western Region. Workers’ comp, homeowners, med-mal, and even insurance fraud topped the list of the most talked about stories. We compiled these recaps based on...
PCI Seeks Changes to Proposed Rule on Producer Compensation in Oregon
Dec 9 2004 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) has voiced its general support of the Oregon Insurance Division’s effort to establish an objective way to determine when an insurance broker must make...
Ore. Court Reverses Decision in Farmers Ins. Case
Dec 7 2004 // Oregon’s highest court has ruled against Farmers Insurance, saying the insurance company had no right to deduct the payouts an injured woman received from two other insurance sources. In 1988, Terrel Ann Bergmann was...
Marsh Admits Overcharging School Districts
Dec 3 2004 // State insurance regulators are investigating Marsh USA, which has acknowledged overcharging six Oregon school districts and Lane Community College since 2000. Marsh, the nation’s biggest insurance brokerage, alerted...
