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Health Insurance – Your Last Resort
Personal injury protection (PIP) is the first place to go to get your medical bills paid if you have been in a car crash. If you’ve been in a crash, call your own insurance company and speak to an adjuster about using your PIP for medical treatments. PIP only pays $15,000 toward your medical bills,… read more
Don’t be Tricked by the other Insurance Company!
You should definitely communicate with your own insurance company’s adjuster, but the insurance adjuster for the other driver’s insurance will probably be more difficult to deal with it. Here are some of the tricks the insurance adjuster will use to try and make you settle your case for an unfair amount. 1. Pretending to be… read more
What you should expect from a lawyer. You have the right to a lawyer who is enthusiastic and informed about you and your case. You have the right to a lawyer whose staff is enthusiastic and informed about your case. You have the right to a lawyer who turns off the phone, stops checking email,… read more
Settlement Lawyer or Trial Lawyer?
Some lawyers advertise that they have been to trial hundreds of times. This many or may not be useful. The lawyer may have done a lot of criminal trials. Criminal trials are very different from personal injury trials. Some other lawyers may go to trial often because they are not very good at negotiating, so… read more
What to Look for in a Personal Injury Attorney
If you have decided to hire a lawyer, how do you find a good one? We can offer a few hard and fast rules, and a few guidelines. Hard and Fast Rules Rule #1: Meet with the lawyer before you sign anything. If you have a bad feeling about the lawyer, trust your gut instinct,… read more
Do I Need an Attorney to Settle my Case?
You may not need an attorney for your accident. If you have minor injuries, you are not in bankruptcy, all of your medical bills have been paid by PIP, and the insurance company treats you respectfully and truthfully, you may be better off settling your lawsuit directly with the insurance company. It is usually difficult… read more
Uber & Lyft are now legal in Portland thanks to a 120-day Pilot Program
Tuesday night the City Council voted 3-2 to allow ride-sharing companies to operate in Portland as a part of a 120-day pilot program. Since Uber starting running illegally in Portland back in December, that made it hard for some of the commissioners to trust their business practices. The 120-day pilot programs would lift the long-standing… read more
These are the times when you find out what you are really made of. Anyone can be optimistic when the sun is shining and the flowers are blooming. But we Oregonians know how to keep a good attitude when the weather is bad. It is natural and easy to fall into self-pity when you have… read more
What is a broken arm worth? How about a bulging vetebral disc that causes nerve pain down the arm for six months until surgery fixes it? What if the surgery doesn’t work? Unfortunately, there is no science to this. In fact, here’s the crazy way that our society figures out what a broken arm is… read more
Medical Liens and the Importance of Negotiation
If your health insurance or your auto insurance (PIP) pays your medical bills due to an injury that was someone else’s fault, and then you get a settlement from that person (or their insurance company), then your insurance company (that pays your medical bills) has the legal right to get back the money they paid… read more
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