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I can't afford a lawyer after this Bend crash - am I screwed?

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.

ARTICLE by Maria Gutierrez

my parked car got hit in Portland and now insurance says there's an exclusion

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.

ARTICLE by Tanya Richardson

Another crash, another fight over who gets your money first

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.

ARTICLE by Janet Yamamoto

Signed the papers after a Bend police-chase crash - did that cost you the truck data?

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.

ARTICLE by Maria Gutierrez

This is my second crash in a Corvallis work zone, and now the contract is the fight

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.

ARTICLE by Jesse Kowalski

license plate confiscation

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,...

I feel bad filing after a wrong-way crash in Beaverton, but my paycheck is gone

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.

ARTICLE by Laura Whitfield

Gresham claim going nowhere? A silent insurer after a sidewalk crash can backfire

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.

ARTICLE by Pavel Novak

my life got wrecked in Gresham and now the insurer says the treatment "wasn't necessary"

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.

ARTICLE by Colleen O'Shea

Forty grand in bills and they still call your disc "pre-existing"

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.

ARTICLE by Janet Yamamoto

Our Uber got clipped cutting through a Bend parking lot and now they're saying the treatment gap ruined the case

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.

ARTICLE by Derek Thompson

driver's license suspension

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...

graduated licensing program

You just got a letter that says a teen driver must complete Oregon's graduated licensing program before getting full driving privileges. That means a step-by-step system for...

motor vehicle record

What trips people up most is the idea that a motor vehicle record is just a list of traffic tickets. It is broader than that. A motor vehicle record, often called an MVR or...

Handling a Tire Blowout Crash Insurance Dispute

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.

ARTICLE by Jesse Kowalski

moving violation vs non-moving violation

Insurance companies and defense lawyers may lean on this distinction to suggest a driver was generally careless, especially when a crash report or driving record shows prior...

Why is the insurer pushing workers' comp after my employee's Beaverton UPS crash?

Oregon third-party vehicle injury cases often settle in the five figures to low six figures, while severe truck-crash verdicts can go much higher. Yes, pushing workers' comp...

A Salem fog pileup can wreck your claim before the cars are even towed

In a near-zero-visibility crash around Salem, the evidence that matters disappears fast, and claims involving a city, county, state truck or road problem can run into Oregon's brutal 180-day notice deadline.

ARTICLE by Pavel Novak

driving abstract

Think of it like a report card for a driver: not a full life story, but a summary of what the state has on file about driving privileges, violations, suspensions, and sometimes...

This is the estimated change in a vehicle's speed during a crash, used to describe how much force was involved in the impact. A lot of people mistake it for the car's speed...