Oregon Accidents

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.

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....

Oregon wrongful death cases often resolve in the six- or seven-figure range, but the worst-case answer is this: a family member usually cannot file personally at all. In...

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...

$100,000 does not mean $100,000 to you. In Oregon, settlement money is usually divided by legal priority, not by who asks first. The usual order is: case costs and attorney...

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.

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.

Insurance adjusters and defense lawyers sometimes use this phrase to make real harm sound vague, optional, or hard to prove. They may argue that because there is no receipt for...

The ER doctor may tell you to get follow-up care, physical therapy, and maybe a spine or orthopedic second opinion. The insurance company will read those same records and look...

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...

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 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.

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...

Money awarded for intangible harm - such as physical pain, emotional suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, disfigurement, inconvenience, and loss of companionship - falls under...

The adjuster is about to ask, "What made you fall?" because in Oregon that answer can swing the value from $0 to a substantial settlement. Most people assume a stair-fall claim...

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.

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.

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 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.