Thousands of bicyclists are injured every year in collisions with moving vehicles and many suffer catastrophic injuries. While drivers inside of motor vehicles are protected during accidents by the steel barrier that forms the frame of their car, truck, or SUV, bicyclists are not shielded from the impact of collisions. Uninsured bicyclists are an especially … Read More
Negligence Found in Dog Attack Injury Claim
Several months ago, Dwyer Williams Cherkoss PC was contacted by the mother of a young girl who was attacked and bitten by her neighbor’s dog. The girl’s mother sought an attorney well-versed in dog bite liability to represent her injured daughter and to seek damages against the dog’s owner. After hearing the details of the … Read More
Auto Accident Attorney Settles Bend Collision Claim
Our client was stopped at a red light near a large shopping center in Bend, Oregon. While she was waiting for the light to change, another car drove up behind her and the driver failed to stop, rear-ending our client. It also caused her to hit the car in front of her. She was injured in the … Read More
Auto Accident Attorney Resolves Case Involving Pre-Existing Conditions
Our client, a nineteen-year-old young woman, was a passenger in her mother’s car on the way to visit family in Portland, Oregon, when another driver ran a red light and hit her side of the car. Besides the injuries she received in the car accident, the collision exacerbated a pre-existing condition that she suffered from. … Read More
Auto Accident Attorney Works to Secure Settlement for Client
Our client was stopped in a line of traffic at a busy traffic signal in Bend, Oregon. Another driver failed to stop for traffic and crashed his car into our client, who was pushed into the oncoming traffic lane, where he was hit by another car. He was injured and sought immediate medical attention for … Read More
Oregon Hit-and-Run Accidents and Insurance Claims
Two high-profile cases in Oregon involving hit-and-run accidents have recently been resolved in criminal court. A man in Medford Oregon, Othon Campos, Jr., was sentenced to three years for striking three adolescents in late August. According to a story in Medford’s Mail-Tribune, one of the children, an 11-year-old girl, was sent to Portland with the … Read More