by Leslie Kocher-Moar | Feb 11, 2018
Leslie Kocher-Moar of MacMillan Scholz & Marks obtained summary judgment last week in a Multnomah County Circuit Court case involving a temporary worker who was injured on the job and received workers’ compensation benefits. Plaintiff sued the employer to whom he...
by Leslie Kocher-Moar | Jan 10, 2018
On January 4, 2018, the Oregon Court of Appeals issued its opinion in Rains v. Stayton Builders. Plaintiff Kevin Rains had fallen 16 feet on a work site and was rendered paraplegic. The jury returned a verdict in favor of Kevin Rains and his spouse Mitzi Rains,...
by Leslie Kocher-Moar | Dec 13, 2017
MacMillan Scholz & Marks Shareholder, Leslie Kocher-Moar, obtained a defense jury verdict for her client in a Clackamas County Circuit Court trial concluding on November 29, 2017. Plaintiff had claimed over $300,000 in damages, including the costs of a cervical...
by Megan Ferris | Dec 13, 2017
A new Oregon case, Security Nat. Ins. Co. v. Sunset Presbyterian Church, 289 Or App 193 (Dec. 6, 2017), holds that a subcontractor’s insurer is not obligated to pay all of a general contractor’s defense costs in an additional insured setting, but only those costs that...
by Leslie Kocher-Moar | Nov 26, 2017
ORS 471.565(1) provides, in relevant part, that: “A patron or guest who voluntarily consumes alcoholic beverages served by *** a social host does not have a cause of action, based on statute or common law, against the person serving the alcoholic beverages, even...
by Leslie Kocher-Moar | Nov 20, 2017
On November 1, 2017, the Oregon Court of Appeals issued its opinion in Vasquez v. Double Press Mfg. Plaintiff had been rendered paraplegic as a result of an industrial accident. A jury returned a verdict in excess of $10,000,000, which after reduction for...
