On October 13, 2022, a Multnomah County jury awarded several million dollars to two people who suffered physical and emotional injuries in a 2016 gas explosion in Portland, and assessed punitive damages of $4.6 million against Loy Clark Pipeline Co. Both plaintiffs were represented by Greg Kafoury and Mark McDougal of Portland. Firefighters responded after a natural gas explosion … Continue reading
Gregg Martin Jensen, a teacher at Liberty High School in Hillsboro, Oregon, was charged on May 5, 2014, with using a child in display of sexually explicit conduct, and second degree sex abuse. Jensen was already facing charges of sexual abuse and encouraging child sex abuse. The question of civil liability arises whenever a predator emerges from an institution which … Continue reading
Kafoury & McDougal today filed a lawsuit on behalf of two women who were sexually abused at the Kaiser clinic in Beaverton. Kaiser Permanente let nurse Alex Matthew Woolner, 37, return to work at a Beaverton clinic after a woman claimed he sexually abused her during an exam, police say. Three additional women say that gave him time to abuse them. … Continue reading
Predatory sexual criminal allegations have been brought against two male high school teachers, each accused of sexually abusing students. At West Linn High School, Jonathan Michael Peachey, a teacher of English and Spanish, was arrested in Lake Oswego on September 29, 2015, on suspicion of third-degree sex abuse and furnishing alcohol to a minor. In addition to his teaching duties, … Continue reading
In November of 2013, Elmo and his wife, Meliitta, approached their neighbors, Sandra Bittler and her husband Michael Leland, about purchasing a 2 acre lot that bordered their two properties. Elmo, age 86, was delighted by the idea that the land his sons had made their wilderness playground could brighten the days of another set of children. However, he was … Continue reading
On March 10, 2015, our firm, Kafoury & McDougal, filed a sex abuse lawsuit against The Oregon Clinic on Barnes Road in Southwest Portland. In May, of last year, The Oregon Clinic, one of Oregon’s largest medical providers, was notified by police detectives that there was evidence than an unconscious patient may have been sexually abused while sedated for a colonoscopy. … Continue reading
Jeffrey McAllister, a nurse at Legacy Emanuel, pled guilty today to a long list of Measure 11 crimes for his sexual abuse of 10 women at Emanuel’s emergency room and will spend a minimum of 15 years behind bars. “McAllister’s crimes covered a period of more than seven years,” said attorney Mark McDougal of Kafoury & McDougal. “During that time, … Continue reading
Allegations of first-degree custodial sexual misconduct against a Washington County jail employee are only the latest in a long series of cases involving the sex abuse of inmates by jail personnel. Jill Curry, a civilian employee at the jail, faces felony charges, based on her arrest of July 16, 2014; the nature of the charge indicates that the alleged victim … Continue reading
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services found that Legacy Emanuel Medical Center flouted federal regulations designed to protect patients. The investigation revealed how hospital staff repeatedly bungled their handling of the complaints and found that Legacy had failed to thoroughly investigate a series of complaints from patients who accused emergency room nurse, Jeffrey McAllister, of sex abuse. Read our initial story … Continue reading
A joint lawsuit against Legacy Emanuel Medical Center and its ER manager was filed by five additional women. They are seeking at least $10 million in damages. This is the fourth lawsuit resulting from the accusations of sex abuse by ex-nurse Jeffrey McAllister, who worked in the hospital’s emergency room from October of 2009 until April of 2013. Legacy Emanuel, … Continue reading
On July 25, 2013, the Oregon Supreme Court denied review of the Court of Appeals decision in Royshekka Herring v. American Medical Response Northwest, Inc., a case handled at the trial and appellate level by our firm, Kafoury & McDougal. On December 8, 2007, Royshekka Herring was transported by an AMR Northwest ambulance. She awakened to find EMT Lannie Haszard’s … Continue reading
