Oregon’s roads can be treacherous in the fall and winter months. Whether you are driving along the overcast coast with its slick roads or in the mountains and high desert on snowy roads, Oregon’s roadway hazards are as high as its accident rates in the fall and winter. Reduced visibility and dangerous driving conditions are … Read More
Successful Car Accident Injury Settlement After Trial
A Central Oregonian woman was seated in her car and waiting at a stop sign just outside of Sisters, Oregon, when an oncoming vehicle slid out of control and collided with her. This second driver had been traveling too fast to make a right-hand turn at the intersection where the first driver sat, and she … 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
What is Impaired Earning Capacity?
Much confusion surrounds the claim of impairment of earning capacity. While this claim used to be an element of noneconomic damages (“pain and suffering”), it has since become an element of economic damages (“out of pocket losses”). However, proving the claim can be difficult. Because of that difficulty, I submit the following in my Trial … 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