InjuryBoard Portland Archives

• Damages Caps in Medical Malpractice and Other Areas

  Staff Writer | November 16, 2005 2:48 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Caps "fix" high jury verdicts by cutting down the ones where the jury finds that the reasonable amount of the damages is a number larger than the cap. Caps do not fix high premiums. States with caps have premiums that are similar to those without caps.High malpractice premiums have to do with how insurance companies work. Long ago, I thought the formula was premiums less claims and...

• Delay and Compromise: the Insurer's Tools

  Staff Writer | November 16, 2005 12:12 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  So the insurance company tried to ignore your claim as long as they could? Wouldn't return voicemails? When they did reply, the offer was way too small. And the adjuster acts like you're asking the world for a trivial injury. And that cases like yours settle for their lowball amount every day. Sound familiar?The insurer is using their two most common and potent tools to save money: delay...

• Premises Injuries on Commercial Property

  Staff Writer | November 16, 2005 11:38 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  I have spoken with and represented a number of people who were injued on commercial premises like Fred Meyer, Albertson's, Home Depot, Burger King, and other stores, restaurants, and commercial properties. While most people think premises liability cases are a slam dunk, the law is actually rigged in favor of the premises owner and occupier.Oregon's law of premises liability follows the...

• Medical Expenses in Bicycle and Pedestrian Cases

  Staff Writer | November 10, 2005 3:59 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  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...

• How do I get my medical expenses paid as they are incurred?

  Staff Writer | November 04, 2005 11:54 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  In most auto accidents and in some premises injuries, no-fault insurance will come into play. A no-fault policy says it will pay when certain conditions are met, without regard to who is at fault for the injury. In Oregon, Personal Injury Protection (PIP) is part of the mandatory minimum auto insurance coverage. It pays the first $15,000.00 or first year of related and reasonable medical...

• Portland Defective Products Liability

  Staff Writer | November 04, 2005 10:54 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The following information regarding defective products is brought to you as a public service by the lawyers of the State of Oregon. The material presented is general legal information intended to alert you to possible legal problems and solutions. If a defective product causes an accident that results in death, injury or property damage, the manufacturer, distributor, retailer, and lessor of the...

• Oregon Sues Insurers for Bad Faith and More

  Staff Writer | November 04, 2005 10:15 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Three Oregon pension funds are suing their insurers and brokers for nearly $4 million, charging they were misled for years to buy employee crime insurance that the carriers wouldn't honor when a major claim arose. The suit--which alleges fraud, bad faith, breach of contract, misrepresentation, negligence and deceptive contract change by the carriers and brokers--could have a major effect on the...

• Pedestrian Accidents - An In-Depth Look

  Staff Writer | November 04, 2005 10:09 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  In May The Honolulu Advisor published a special report on pedestrian accidents:Every day on average, one or two people get hit by a car as they're walking on a street somewhere on O'ahu. Most of the accidents occur in a six-mile long area between Kapahulu and Kalihi. Pedestrians use the crosswalk at King Street and Fort Street Mall in downtown Honolulu, an area prone to pedestrian accidents....

• Motorcycle Accidents Increase

  Staff Writer | November 04, 2005 10:03 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A middle-aged Canadian man died on Labor Day when his motorcycle struck a car near the Oregon coast. In Central Oregon, a middle-aged couple from Aloha suffered injuries when their Harley Davidson collided with a Jeep.The incidents were the latest in what has become a sharp, if little-noticed, rise in the number of motorcycle accidents in Oregon.More than 550 motorcyclists were killed or injured...