{"id":12576,"date":"2012-08-07T07:36:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T14:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdxinjurylaw.com\/?p=12576"},"modified":"2024-03-27T01:45:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T01:45:09","slug":"tri-met-accident-attorneys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pdxinjurylaw.com\/es\/tri-met-accident-attorneys\/","title":{"rendered":"Tri-Met Accident Attorneys Understand City Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"

When people use a bus or light rail service, they are putting their safety in the hands of experienced professional drivers and transportation experts. They quite rightly feel that the very least they can expect is to get from Point A to Point B without coming to any harm.<\/p>\n

Likewise, Portland-area pedestrians and cyclists who are obeying the laws regarding the use of intersections, bike lanes, etc., have every reason to believe they will not be injured by a TriMet bus or train. However, every year Portland accident attorneys are called on to make personal injury\u2014or even wrongful death claims\u2014against TriMet, an entity to which special rules and limitations with regard to insurance claims and lawsuits applies.<\/p>\n

Anyone considering filing a personal injury claim against TriMet should contact a Portland personal injury firm familiar with the intricacies of such cases. TriMet is the main bus and light rail transportation provider of bus and light rail services in Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas Counties. While they are certainly not immune from liability for accidents and injuries caused by the negligence of one or more of their employees, or by faulty equipment, or for a variety of other reasons, time limits for filing a tort claim against them are quite strict.<\/p>\n

Statute of limitations<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oregon Revised Statutes mandate that anyone considering a personal injury lawsuit against TriMet must file a tort claim notice within 180 days of the accident. Failure to meet this very strict requirement means that your claim will almost without question be thrown out, regardless of its validity.<\/p>\n

To put it in the clearest possible terms, if a TriMet driver fell asleep at the wheel while reading a magazine with a beer in his or her hand and ran you over at a marked intersection while you were crossing the road with a green light, you would think you\u2019d have a pretty strong claim against TriMet! However, if you failed to file that claim within 180 days, it would be thrown out.<\/p>\n

Those are the rules, and they represent one of the best reasons why potential claimants should make it their first point of business to hire a Portland personal injury lawyer with experience in handling TriMet cases. In fact, several less experienced lawyers have been sued by their clients for not filing tort claim notices on time.<\/p>\n

Self-insured and well protected<\/strong><\/p>\n

TriMet offers an invaluable service that gets people to work, to the shops, or j-st to the park for a day out, every day of the year. What many people may not realize is that they also sub-contract some of their work out to independent contractors.<\/p>\n

In addition, it may come as something of a surprise that TriMet and any of the independent companies they use do not have insurance through an independent company. Instead, TriMet:<\/p>\n