A commercial truck accident killed two Portland teenagers earlier this month, reported news station KOIN. The crash occurred on Highway 47 north of Forest Grove during the morning of April 7, 2014. The driver of the truck was not injured. The report indicates that law enforcement had not yet determined precisely how the accident occurred. Preventing … Read More
Car Accident Injury Victim Recovers Lost Wages
Our client was driving her car along a busy street in Bend. As she approached an intersection, she noted that the light was green for traffic moving in her direction, and proceeded through the intersection. When her car was half way through the intersection, another motorist ran a red light and crashed his vehicle into … Read More
Impairment of Earning Capacity Claim in Oregon Car Accident Injury Case
This trial report concerns a collision that occurred at the intersection of SW 6th Street and SW Evergreen Avenue in Redmond, Oregon. My client was a passenger in his father’s Honda Accord at the time, which was stopped at the intersection specified above. Our client was looking out the car window to his left, watching an … Read More
Cost of Future Care in Car Accident Settlement
It is a frightening scenario that many Oregonian drivers know well: you are carefully driving down a snowy road when you notice a vehicle moving in your direction too fast given the winter conditions. Loss of control in this context is as probable as an accident. In Oregon’s mountain towns like Bend, shortened winter days … Read More
Car Accident Injury Settlement Offered Prior to Trial
A woman injured in a recent automobile accident in Bend, Oregon, approached Dwyer Williams Cherkoss PC after a frustrating series of events. We immediately took this woman on as a client after hearing what she had endured. Our client was driving her car through an intersection in Bend’s downtown area when she was violently struck … Read More
New Car Accident Case Resolved in Arbitration
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