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• New Trial Denied in Lingual Nerve Injury Verdict

  Staff Writer | August 24, 2006 2:47 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  In June, Jane Paulson won a $600,000 verdict for injury to our client's lingual nerve from a wisdom tooth extraction. The defense filed a motion for new trial which was heard and rejected yesterday by the court. The defense now plans to appeal the lingual nerve injury verdict.The lingual nerve is on the tongue side of your teeth and can be permanently damaged if a dentist errs, most often by...

• Medical Malpractice Suit Declared Mistrial

  Christina Cole | February 24, 2007 10:03 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  A medical malpractice lawsuit brought by Notre Dame Coach Charlie Weis has been declared a mistrial after two defendant doctors helped a juror who had collapsed during testimony.The unidentified gentleman began to moan before he collapsed during testimony by an expert defense witness.Weis' attorney moved for mistrial after the juror was removed from the courtroom to be taken to the hospital....

• Oregon Jury Returns $1.4 Million Dollar Medical Malpractice Verdict

  Staff Writer | September 07, 2006 10:01 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  A Portland, Oregon jury returned a $1.4 million dollar verdict in a medical malpractice case today against Oregon Health Sciences University. The medical malpractice case is significant because it is the first verdict in Oregon since the Oregon Court of Appeals ruled that individual doctors at OHSU can be sued beyond the tort claims cap of $100,000 non-economic damages and $100,000 economic...

• Oregon Trial Lawyers Association completes home

  Scott Hendison | July 27, 2006 7:28 AM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  Wednesday July 26, 2006 will be the Oregon Trial Lawyers Association ("OTLA") last scheduled build day at the Portland Habitat for Humanity project in SE Portland. When she was President of OTLA, Jane Paulson wanted to help Habitat by contributing and raising funds from OTLA members to help build a Habitat home. Paulson raised $20,000 from OTLA members to help build the Chanocua's home. The...

• Toxins in Fish Sicken Many in U.S.

  Jenny Albano | February 06, 2008 4:26 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  The FDA has announced that there have been at least 28 reports of consumers getting sick from ciguatera fish poisoning. The fish that were eaten were harvested in the northern Gulf of Mexico. The first reproted case was in November and outbreaks of the illness were confirmed in Washington D.C. and St. Louis.Symptoms of ciguatera poisoning include nausea, vomiting, vertigo and joint pain. In...

• Medication Error Lawsuit Settles

  Staff Writer | July 31, 2006 12:35 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  On July 26, 2006, our firm successfully concluded a case which involved both a medication error and medical malpractice. Our client was placed on Coumadin, a blood thinner, due to a rare clotting factor in her blood. Her doctor erred by taking her off the medication and she had a life-altering stroke, permanently disabling her.On April 29, 2005 Jane Doe sustained a massive stroke to the brain...

• Man Dies after Crashing into Farm Vehicle

  Christina Cole | March 01, 2007 10:57 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  A man died after the car he was driving smashed into the back of a farm truck on Highway 6. The man died from the severe injuries sustained during the car accident.The man was traveling west on Highway 6, at approximately 6:45am when the accident happened, Oregon State Police say.The Toyota 2-door car crashed into the back of a westbound Oregon Road Runner hay squeeze (a farm implement.) He told...

• Oregon Malpractice Payouts Decline

  Christina Cole | February 06, 2007 11:49 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  For many years, physicians groups in Oregon and nationally have railed about a malpractice crisis said to be the cause of driving up costs and forcing doctors to close shop.But a study published on Wednesday suggests malpractice damage awards have declined considerably in recent years.Consumer advocacy group Public Citizen mined the federal government's National Practitioner Data Bank to track...

• Wrongful Death Lawsuit Settles for $250,000

  Christina Cole | January 16, 2007 1:28 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  A wrongful death lawsuit has been settled with a Mother whose son was killed when a state representative's son hit him in a fatal drunken car crash. After pleading guilty last year to a felony charge of leaving the scene of the accident that resulted in death and a misdemeanor count of drunk driving, Andrew Saunders, has been ordered to serve four years in prison. Saunders was driving a car...

• Jarrett Jack Injured in Car Accident

  Christina Cole | January 13, 2007 9:22 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  Jarrett Jack, Portland Trail Blazers guard, suffered from a concussion in a car accident on Friday and he won't be playing in tonight's game against Sacramento.Jack was in a car accident outside the team's practice facility in Tualatin, Oregon. He was taken to the hospital for observation and diagnosed with a concussion. It has yet to be announced how much time Jack will miss.