Oregon Accidents

ORS 746.230 lists unfair claim settlement practices in Oregon, and when an insurer crosses that line, the cost can be very real: delayed medical payments, lowball offers,...

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.

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 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.

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.

You can still make a claim in Oregon after a rear-end crash without an ER visit, but the fight usually turns into proof, timing, and whether you're dealing with the other driver's tiny policy or your own UM/UIM coverage.

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.

In Washington, he could still recover even if he was mostly to blame. In Oregon, that same crash can wipe out the claim if he is found more than 50% at fault. Picture a real...

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 police report may say the other driver caused the crash, but that is not what decides how much your claim is worth. Fault matters, but so do your damages - including PTSD,...

When you wreck a borrowed car in Hillsboro and the at-fault driver turns out to be basically uninsured, the fight usually starts with the car owner's policy, not your medical bills.

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.

The biggest mistake is thinking you can sort out insurance later. You can't. In Oregon, the first 48 hours can make or break what your claim is worth. The dumbest myth is: "I...

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.

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.

The first fight is not just who drove the wrong way - it's locking down the garage evidence before the public agency and insurers shrug and say nothing can be proved.

A bad miss on this issue can leave an injured person underpaid and a policyholder personally exposed for a judgment far above the insurance limits. A Stowers demand is a...

The biggest risk is not firing your lawyer. It's missing a deadline while the file is in limbo. The insurance company will tell you switching lawyers will slow everything down,...

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 claim can lose value if an injured person lets avoidable losses pile up. That can mean a smaller settlement or verdict, even when someone else clearly caused the accident. At...