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• Oregon Accident Law: Getting Started

  Brad Brad | October 29, 2006 7:43 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  Sometimes people are injured and do not know where to turn. For people who reside in Oregon or have a case that has taken place there, lawyer who practices Oregon accident law can help you.Sometimes people are injured and do not know where to turn. For people who reside in Oregon or have a case that has taken place there, lawyer who practices Oregon accident law can help you.An Oregon accident...

• Oregon Wrongful Death Case Goes to Supreme Court

  Staff Writer | August 02, 2006 8:05 AM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  A wrongful death case against Philip Morris USA that was upheld in the Oregon Supreme Court earlier in 2006 will go to the U.S. Supreme Court this fall. The case involved the family of Jesse D. Williams, who died of lung cancer in 1997 after smoking cigarettes since the 1950s. Williams was a janitor and smoked three packs of Marlboros a day. An Oregon jury awarded the Williams family $80...

• Family Wins Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

  Staff Writer | July 28, 2006 10:40 AM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  Five year old Alexis Hayes' cerebral palsy, lack of speech and need for a wheelchair came as a result of medical malpractice, an Ohio jury ruled last week. The jury awarded Hayes' family nearly $18 million for what they deemed was an anesthesiologist's error. The injuries occurred as Alexis was about to undergo surgery to remove a benign cyst on her neck.The hospital, which settled out of court...

• Wrongful Death Lawsuit Still Possible For Worker's Family?

  Staff Writer | July 20, 2006 11:53 AM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  In a case involving the family of Felix Juarez, a worker at the Windsor Island Mine who died from head injuries after being struck by a backhoe bucket, the Oregon Supreme Court rejected the workers' comp suit. The justices made a unanimous decision that the Oregon Constitution did not automatically give the family the right to sue a company for negligence that resulted in its worker's death....

• Hospital Liability Cap Overruled in Medical Malpractice Case

  Staff Writer | July 19, 2006 1:15 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  Though a state law limits jury awards against public agencies to $200,000, the Oregon Court of Appeals ruled on July 5 that the family of a brain-damaged child could sue for millions of dollars. The family of Jordaan Michael Clarke sued Oregon Health & Science University for more than $17 million alleging their boy suffered permanent brain damage in 1998 due to medical malpractice while a...

• Hypertension Drugs Linked to Birth Defects

  Staff Writer | July 16, 2006 1:19 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  Fellow blogger Denise Rubin in NY talks about the recent announcement that ACE inhibitors have been linked to birth defects in the first trimester of pregnancy, specifically problems with fetal skull development, kidney problems and growth inhibition. ACE inhibitors such as catopril and lisinopril are prescribed to treat hypertension and are popular medications used for kidney protection in...

• Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed Against Group Home

  Staff Writer | July 14, 2006 1:02 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  The family of an Alabama woman who died as a result of injuries suffered during an incident at an Alabama group home has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the facility. Martha Sue Hall had been transferred from a different home to Grand Haven Group Home only three days before her death. She suffered "significant and catastrophic injuries leading to her death," the suit alleges. The Mental...

• Medical Expenses in Bicycle and Pedestrian Cases

  Staff Writer | November 10, 2005 3:59 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  In Oregon, your medical expenses from a car accident are ordinarily covered under your own personal injury protection (PIP) policy and paid as you go rather than at the end of the claim. So what happens when you do not have a PIP policy but get hit by a motor vehicle? The Oregon PIP statutes require PIP to cover pedestrians who are struck by a motor vehicle, and define bicycles as pedestrians...

• Dental Malpractice Verdict in Oregon

  Scott Hendison | July 25, 2006 2:17 PM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  Paulson Law firm has recieved a verdict for $600,000 in a claim last month against Willamette Dental. The damages awarded were for a lingual nerve injury. Our client's nerve was damaged during a routine wisdom tooth extraction, which left him with numbness and shooting, burning pain, a tingling sensation, and a throbbing pain in this tongue. He also experiences difficulty biting and using his...

• North Portland Car Accident Kills Man

  Staff Writer | July 18, 2006 9:43 AM | 0 CommentsPortland, OR

  A sixty-seven year-old Portland man was killed this weekend when his Ford Explorer rolled over during a crash in North Portland around North Chautauqua Blvd. and North Columbia Blvd.According to police, the man who was killed was slowly changing lanes when he struck another vehicle going in the same direction. The vehicle he struck ended up with minimal damage, but the man's Ford Explorer...