Oregon Accidents

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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 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.

You may have only 24 to 72 hours before nearby video is erased. Save everything tied to the crash now: photos of all vehicles, the taxi's company name, cab number, and plate,...

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.

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,...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...