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I just had lunch with a 30-year-old lawyer. He does great work. He’s got three or four years of experience, and he’s smart, eager, and a good lawyer. At first I was shocked when he told me that he’s never heard of a 20.080 case<\/a>\u00a0or a PIP case. But the more I thought about it, the less shocked I became.<\/p>\n

ORS 20.080 is a law that protects injured Oregonians from greedy insurance companies. So a 20.080 case is a case that a lawyer brings once an insurance company has denied a claim for under $10,000. A PIP case is a claim against a person\u2019s own insurance for denying PIP (personal injury protection) benefits after a car accident.<\/p>\n

These two types of cases are unique in a few ways:<\/p>\n

1) They probably help many more injured Oregonians than regular personal injury cases do. Small claims like these are just much more common \u2013these are the small rear-end whiplash cases, for example, that make a person\u2019s life difficult but aren\u2019t worth more than $10,000.<\/p>\n

2) Both PIP cases and 20.080 cases force the insurance company to pay the injured person’s attorney fees if it can be shown that the insurance company did not pay the bills they should have paid. (In a regular case, the injured person has to pay their own legal fees, usually with a contingency fee agreement<\/a> with their attorney.)<\/p>\n

3) No lawyer is ever going to get rich or famous taking these cases.<\/p>\n

It may seem that the second and third ones contradict each other. If 20.080 cases and PIP cases can make the insurance company pay the legal fees for the injured person, then isn’t that lawyer going to make a lot of money? Surprisingly, no. The lawyer will make a living, but it’s not great money. The reason is that the lawyer only gets paid when he or she wins. And also, there is no possibility of a really big payment \u2013 the insurance companies only pay hourly fees, not contingency fees, so it’s just regular hourly work.<\/p>\n

That’s why this newer lawyer has never heard of 20.080 cases or PIP cases. They’re not glamorous. They’re not “big money” cases. They don’t make the news. They’re cases usually worth under $10,000. This is a lot of money to most people, but it’s pretty far away from being a million-dollar case.<\/p>\n

It’s a shame because these smaller PIP and 20.080 cases affect many more injured Oregonians than the bigger cases. I suspect that thousands of injured Oregonians go without any hope of justice every year because they have trouble finding an abogado de lesiones en Portland <\/a>who will take this sort of case.<\/p>\n

Which, as I say, is a shame. Because everyone deserves justice, not just people with cases that will make the evening news.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Acabo de comer con un abogado de 30 a\u00f1os. Hace un gran trabajo. Tiene tres o cuatro a\u00f1os de experiencia y es inteligente, entusiasta y un buen abogado. Al principio me sorprendi\u00f3 cuando me dijo que nunca hab\u00eda o\u00eddo hablar de un caso 20.080 o de un caso PIP. Pero cuanto m\u00e1s lo pensaba... leer m\u00e1s<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_content_optimizer_report_url":"","_content_optimizer_report_added":"","_content_optimizer_keyword_hide_used":false,"_content_optimizer_keyword_hide_above_average":false,"_content_optimizer_entities_hide_used":false,"_content_optimizer_entities_hide_above_average":false,"_content_optimizer_headings_hide_used":false,"_content_optimizer_questions_hide_used":false,"_content_optimizer_tab_active":"","_content_optimizer_report_url_ce":"","_content_optimizer_report_added_ce":"","_content_optimizer_keyword_hide_used_ce":false,"_content_optimizer_keyword_hide_above_average_ce":false,"_content_optimizer_entities_hide_used_ce":false,"_content_optimizer_entities_hide_above_average_ce":false,"_content_optimizer_headings_hide_used_ce":false,"_content_optimizer_questions_hide_used_ce":false,"_content_optimizer_tab_active_ce":""},"categories":[4,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-injury","category-personal-injury-process"],"yoast_head":"\nSmaller Case Blues: Justice for 20.080 and PIP Claims<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pdxinjurylaw.com\/es\/smaller-case-justice\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Smaller Case Blues: Justice for 20.080 and PIP Claims\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I just had lunch with a 30-year-old lawyer. 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