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How Do You Negotiate A Personal Injury Settlement?
If you were injured in an accident due to someone else’s negligence, you can be compensated for your losses. Determining the right value to settle your injury claim can be difficult. Before you begin the settlement process you must speak to a doctor to determine the type and extent of your injuries. This way you… read more
Portland Sues Uber for Operating Illegally in the City
On Monday, the City of Portland filed a lawsuit against the ride sharing service, Uber, for operating illegally. The case has moved from the Multnomah County Circuit Court to federal court per Uber’s request. Accommodating Portland’s rules for Uber would cost more than $100,000 and change their business model completely. The San Francisco-based ride-sharing company… read more
What is Uninsured Motorist Coverage?
Did you know that in the event of a car accident with an uninsured at-fault driver, you can use uninsured motorist coverage? This coverage protects you under these circumstances. How it works is that you make a claim against your own insurance company, for up to the limit of coverage, instead of against the other driver…. read more
How Much Money is My Personal Injury Case Worth?
If you’re considering filing a claim with an insurance company because youve been hurt (personal injury lawsuit) you’re probably wondering how much your case is worth. Our civil justice system awards money (damages) to the person injured by making the party responsible for the injury (or their insurance company) pay the injured person for the… read more
Help! I Crashed Someone Else’s Car – Will Insurance Cover this?
People often contact an Oregon car insurance attorney when they have been in an accident in which someone got injured. That’s common enough. However, considerable confusion and anxiety are often the byproducts of an accident where either the person driving the car didn’t own it, or the owner of the car had loaned it to… read more
Can Your Laptop Plead the Fifth? “Testimony” in a Digital Age
The Electronic Frontier Foundation always gets involved in interesting cases, and Leon Gelfgatt’s is no exception: Mr. Gelfgatt was arrested and charged with forgery. Then the government got a search warrant and seized his electronics as evidence. But he had encrypted his files, and the government couldn’t break the encryption. So they asked a judge… read more
Do Personal Injury Lawsuits Make the World Safer?
Personal injury lawsuits are supposed to serve several different purposes: They’re supposed to compensate someone who was injured due to another person’s carelessness. They’re supposed to make the person who actually caused a loss to pay for that loss. They’re supposed to help prevent injuries from resulting in bankruptcy if the injury was not your… read more
Lobbyists Hard At Work Helping Insurance Companies Rob You Blind
I am so sick of insurance companies getting away with screwing consumers! It’s happening again, right now. House Bill 3160 passed the Oregon House, but is being held up in the Oregon Senate by the forty-seven(!!!) lobbyists that are bending your Senators’ ears. (ORS 646.605 – 646.656) makes it illegal for businesses to use “unconscionable… read more
ACLU vs. NSA: Protecting Rights to Privacy
Everyone’s talking about Edward Snowden’s recent revelations of the extent to which the NSA has been tracking U.S. citizens. If you haven’t heard (where have you been?), Edward Snowden is a former National Security Administration contractor who, after leaving the NSA with classified surveillance information, has been leaking said information to show Americans how the… read more
Should a Drunk Driver Be Allowed to Sue the Bar That Overserved Her?
The fearless lawyers at Pickett Dummigan brought an unusual lawsuit a while back regarding a drunk driving accident. They represent Ashley Schutz for extremely serious injuries that she received after she drank way too much alcohol and then caused a car crash. The suit is complex and has multiple defendants and causes of action, but… read more
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