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• Judge Rules Medical Malpractice Settlement Cannot Be Sealed

  Staff Writer | September 14, 2006 1:04 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Many are praising a judge's recent refusal to seal a medical malpractice settlement and are encouraging others to take the same stance. The judge's decision in the case went against the common practice within the legal community of allowing medical malpractice settlements of lawsuits to be filed confidentially.Defendants often request medical malpractice settlements be confidential and try to...

• Policy Limits Obtained for Pedestrian Hit By Driver

  Staff Writer | September 08, 2006 1:12 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Our firm obtained a policy limits offer for our client who was hit, as a pedestrian, in a crosswalk by a driver. The motor vehicle accident caused serious personal injuries to our client, a resident of Portland, Oregon. Pedestrians are often hit in crosswalks by drivers failing to watch the road. In Oregon, the law requires drivers to stop for pedestrians in crosswalks.

• Oregon Jury Returns $1.4 Million Dollar Medical Malpractice Verdict

  Staff Writer | September 07, 2006 10:01 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  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...