Your personal injury attorney’s experience, negotiation skills, and litigation strategy directly impact your compensation and case resolution. A skilled attorney pushes back against lowball offers, gathers strong evidence, and builds a compelling case to secure fair compensation. Acting quickly with a knowledgeable attorney helps preserve evidence, strengthen your case, and improve your chances of a … Read more
By Robert Chapman Bicycle versus auto collisions can result in serious personal injuries and even wrongful death. Vehicle and bicycle accidents can happen in endlessly large numbers of ways: Weather conditions, road surface conditions, and vehicle conditions can also contribute greatly to collisions between bicycles and cars and trucks. In Oregon, bicycles by law are … Read more
KOBI Television Stryker Hip Recall Story – July 3, 2014 Hip-replacement lawsuits continue to increase locally By TERESA RISTOW July 3, 2014 for the Mail Tribune A Central Point man who had heavy metals enter his bloodstream from his hip-replacement device is joining nearly 100 others locally who have filed lawsuits against the device manufacturer. … Read more
A New Jersey judge will decide later this week if the sender of a text message might be partially liable for a horrific auto accident that occurred because the driver was reading that message on his cell phone and drifted into oncoming traffic. With nearly half a million U.S. drivers injured in distracted driving-related accidents every year, … Read more
This case involves personal injury protection (PIP) benefits offered by insurance policies written by Farmers. Both by statute and by contract, Farmers was obligated to pay “[a]ll reasonable and necessary expenses of medical, hospital, dental, surgical, ambulance and prosthetic services incurred within one year after the date of the person’s injury,” up to a certain … Read more
This article came across my desk last month and I thought I would share my thoughts on the subject. For a little background here’s a portion of the article: “It looks like the Hyundai Sonata is officially taking its place near the top of the midsize car category. We already told you how it has … Read more
Studies have shown that using a cellphone while driving or reading text messages behind the wheel can be deadly. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration driver distraction was a factor in 12% of vehicle crashes in 2004. By 2008 the figure had risen to just over 16%. Despite these results, 26% of drivers … Read more
This list was originally created by Ben Glass, a personal injury attorney in Northern Virginia. It a little tongue in cheek, but it’s does a great job of highlighting the steps that an attorney goes thru in preparing your case. 1. Secure the correct identity of the person who hit you, as well as the … Read more
The law concerning the death of a human being at the hands of or as a result of some negligent action or inaction by another person has historically been divided into two distinct legal categories, criminal and civil. Each state and the federal legal system has its own version of these concepts. In the criminal … Read more
A Multnomah County jury in December 2003 found that Farmers Insurance acted in bad faith and systematically defrauded thousands of Oregon policyholders by failing to reimburse the full amount of their medical expenses from automobile accidents. After a five week trial, the jury returned a verdict of $1.5 million in compensatory damages and $8 million … Read more