“Take it easy for a few days.” For some people, that sounds like reasonable medical advice. For someone whose paycheck depends on showing up for every scheduled shift, it can sound more like a financial threat. Imagine a worker living in Gresham and...
There is a strange point after some car accidents when everything looks finished. The tow truck is gone. The police report exists. The body shop calls and says your vehicle is ready. You pick it up, look at the new bumper, adjust the...
Most personal injury cases never reach a jury. That doesn’t mean juries are irrelevant. Long before anyone walks into a courtroom, both sides are asking some version of the same question: If twelve ordinary people eventually heard this story,...
Insurance companies do not need you to destroy your own injury claim. They just need you to make it a little easier to undervalue. A casual statement made before you understand your injuries. A missing medical appointment that never gets explained. An...
The word lawsuit makes almost everything sound more dramatic. People picture a courtroom packed with spectators. A lawyer points across the room. Someone takes the witness stand. A jury waits for closing arguments. That can happen. But if you were...
The insurance company’s position seemed straightforward. The crash wasn’t severe enough to explain months of pain. The vehicle damage wasn’t dramatic. The injured driver had gone home instead of taking an ambulance. And buried in years of...
Not every dangerous road looks dangerous. There are no mountain curves on Powell Boulevard. No narrow canyon walls along Burnside. No dramatic drop-offs surrounding Eastman Parkway. Instead, Gresham’s difficult intersections tend to be ordinary...
personal injury claim form By the time an insurance adjuster calls you, they may already know more about the accident than you expect. They may have the police report. They may have photographs of the vehicles. They may know where the crash occurred,...
At 5:20 on a weekday afternoon, Burnside looks exactly like you would expect. Traffic is thick heading through Rockwood. Cars are moving in short bursts between lights. A bus pulls toward a stop. Someone ahead changes lanes because they realize their turn is...
Car accident advice has a strange way of spreading. A coworker tells you what happened in their case. A relative remembers something their lawyer said fifteen years ago. Someone online insists that insurance companies “always” do one thing or that Oregon law...
