It’s every car buyer’s worst nightmare – being involved in a car wreck in your new car before it’s added to your insurance policy. That’s exactly what happened to our Portland, Oregon client. He had purchased a new vehicle and had owned it for three days when he was injured in an accident before he … Read More
Lost Wages Central Issue in PIP Case
Once an active mother with two small children, our client’s life changed dramatically when she was injured in a Portland, Oregon auto accident. Her extensive medical care nearly exhausted the $15,000 in personal injury protection (PIP) benefits she had available. Despite her efforts to recover, the demands of the job she had always enjoyed became … Read More
Halloween Brings Increase of Pedestrian, DUII, and Dog Bite Accidents
It’s Halloween, and children all over Oregon are anxiously awaiting the evening, when they can put on their carefully planned costumes and go trick-or-treating. Halloween can be a fun time for the whole family, but it can also be an extremely dangerous evening for young pedestrians. Researchers at the University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute … Read More
Intersections Site of Many Auto Accidents Resulting in Personal Injury
Where’s the most dangerous place you drive every day? You may think of the Interstate where you speed at 80 mph from exit to exit, or maybe you think of that narrow two lane winding road with blind curves that gets you to the main highway on your morning commute. No doubt those locales have … Read More
Passengers Benefit from Representation of Auto Accident Attorney
Ndamukong Suh, the Detroit Lions defensive tackle and Portland native, was recently in the news again – this time for a car accident in Detroit, Michigan. You may remember that the Oregonian made local news in December 2011, when he lost control and crashed on 3rd and Burnside in Portland, Oregon. In that accident, Suh … Read More
Insurance Company Lets Off Brakes on Settlement in Personal Injury Case
Our client was an employee in a large warehouse in Portland, Oregon. One day, he was performing routine tasks while riding on a forklift when the brakes on the forklift went out. In a horrifying chain of events, he was thrown from the forklift and run over by the heavy piece of machinery. Not surprisingly, … Read More