Oregon High Court Urged To ‘Quash Confusion,’ Clarify ‘Occurrence’ Requirement

(October 5, 2023, 11:40 AM EDT) -- SALEM, Ore. — Saying a commercial general liability insurer’s respondents’ brief “illustrates precisely why clarification of Oregon law on the interpretation of ‘occurrence’ is needed,” homeowners urge the state Supreme Court to “clarify that ‘occurrence’ is interpreted by the words used to define it and that ‘accident’ and ‘exposure’ turn on the facts of what happened, without regard to the legal theory of liability that might be later applied to those facts in a legal proceeding.”...