Oregon Accidents

An Amazon Flex driver in Bend got wrecked on a blind curve while working and found out the company had no workers' comp, which changes who can be forced to pay.

A Gresham Amazon Flex driver hit on a sidewalk does not lose the claim just because the insurer goes silent, and Oregon law gives the driver real leverage.

An Amazon van ran a stop sign, the driver had a suspended license and no active policy, and now the real mess is figuring out why your settlement already has other hands in it.

A Portland physical therapist comes back to a smashed parked car, the other driver is gone, and the real fight becomes whether a policy exclusion wipes out coverage.

A painter on a Corvallis commercial site got hit in a confusing work zone and now has two fights: not enough insurance and a contract clause nobody bothered to explain.

If you were shopping a batch, fell inside an Oregon grocery store, and the store's insurance got to you fast, the biggest risk is saying too much before anyone has sorted out whether this belongs in workers' comp, a liability claim, or both.

A Bend Uber passenger still has a claim after a parking-lot cut-through crash, but a three-month treatment gap gives the insurer exactly the argument it wants.

The right to refuse compelled answers that could help the government prove a crime against you. "Privilege" matters because it is not a blanket right to stay silent about...

What protections does the Constitution give for speech, religion, the press, assembly, and petitions to the government? First Amendment rights are the freedoms guaranteed by...

A commercial painter in Gresham was hit hard enough to get pushed into traffic, and now the insurer is trying the oldest move in the book: calling the treatment unnecessary and hoping he backs off.

A Gresham teacher gets hit by a turning driver, ends up with a herniated disc, and now the real fight is over whether the crash actually caused the life-changing part of the injury.

After a police-pursuit crash in Bend, truck electronic data can disappear fast, and waiting even a few days can make a bad case much worse.

A tire blowout on an Oregon highway can turn into a fight over fault fast, especially when the insurer tries to shrug it off as nobody's problem.

This can change whether a law, workplace rule, or government policy survives a court challenge - and that can hit your case outcome hard. If a judge uses intermediate scrutiny,...

Miss this issue, and a government rule that singles people out can slide by untouched. That can mean unequal treatment in policing, licensing, benefits, school discipline,...

Not the same as a court simply looking at a law very closely or being skeptical of government action in general. Plenty of challenged laws survive ordinary review. Strict...

If you were on the clock in Beaverton when a wrong-way driver hit you on an on-ramp, your boss does not get to shame you out of a workers' comp claim.

Think of a farm with three different jobs that should not be handled by the same person: one group makes the rules, another carries them out, and a third settles disputes when...

Can the state temporarily take away your ability to drive? Yes. A driver's license suspension is a government action that removes a person's legal driving privilege for a set...

You just got a letter that says your vehicle registration is suspended and your plates must be turned in. That is license plate confiscation: the government takes back,...