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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

Funeral Costs and Estate Issues After an Oregon Bus Crash

In Oregon, wrongful death and survival claims are not the same thing, and the money for funeral bills, the estate, kids, and family members does not all flow through the same lane.

ARTICLE by Maria Gutierrez

Her Salem garage crash looks obvious until the immunity claim hits

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.

ARTICLE by Pavel Novak

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

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

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

mitigation of damages

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...

state sovereign immunity

What catches many people off guard is that this is not a rule saying the government can never be sued. It is a legal protection that generally shields a state and its agencies...

standing to sue

A person or organization has standing to sue when they are legally entitled to bring a case because they were directly affected by the dispute and the court can potentially...

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

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

separation of powers

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...

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

hedonic damages

Money awarded for the loss of enjoyment of life after a serious injury or death is commonly called hedonic damages. They focus on what a person can no longer do, experience, or...

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

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

My worker died in a Medford crash, can his family recover funeral costs?

In California, a spouse or child can often file directly. In Oregon, the insurance company will tell you "only the estate can sue" and hope everyone stops asking questions....

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

procedural due process

Losing benefits, a job, a license, or a legal claim because the government moved too fast or shut you out can hit your finances hard. When a decision affects your rights or...

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