Personal Injury Claims
Our law firm has been handling personal injury cases in state and federal courts (as well as in arbitration) for over 20 years. Our cases involve a wide variety of injuries and conditions: soft tissue injuries, fractures of all kinds, disc herniations, traumatic brain injury/closed head injury and quadriplegia, to name a few, as well as wrongful death actions.
Medical Negligence:
Claims against doctors, nurses, hospitals, clinics, chiropractors, dentists, naturopaths, and other medical professionals require knowledge of the medical specialty involved (e.g. cardiology, gynecology, ophthalmology, oncology, radiology, internal medicine, etc.) as well as the ability to work with independent medical experts to recognize and explain breaches of applicable standards of care (negligence). We have extensive experience settling, arbitrating and trying to conclusion cases involving medical care errors, including diagnostic and surgical errors, including Kaiser malpractice claims.
Premises Liability:
Landowners and possessors owe a duty to those lawfully on their property to use due care to keep the premises safe. We have years of experience handling cases against homeowners, shopkeepers and other property owners and lessors whose failure to keep their property free of hazards have caused injury to our clients. Examples include recovery for a humeral fracture caused by a homeowner’s faulty ladder, recovery for a hip fracture and disability caused by an unmarked island in a parking garage, and recovery for a spiral fracture of the tibia/fibula caused by a defectively designed and maintained stairway in a downtown high rise.
Auto/Truck Collisions:
Whether truck v. truck, auto v. truck, or either vehicle v. a pedestrian or cyclist, we have handled all types of vehicular collision cases, including rear-end, intersection, side-impact and head-on impacts. These cases involve recovery against commercial and private vehicle insurers, and include PIP recovery, as well. They may also involve governmental entities, such as Tri-Met or other governmental transportation providers. Injuries range from soft tissue neck and back claims to closed head injury/traumatic brain injury, to surgical and non-surgical spinal injuries to fractures (scapula, fibula/tibia, radius/ulna, jaw, etc.).
Dangerous Products:
Products liability litigation is often expensive due to manufactures’ reticence to pay promptly for injuries caused by their lucrative products. We have extensive experience with these claims, including but not limited to our litigation against the tobacco companies.
Coordination of Benefits/Efforts:
Because our practice encompasses social security, workers compensation and a wide variety of personal injury areas, we coordinate available benefits in major injury cases. Frequently, these benefits overlap, conflict, and sometimes affect each other or require repayment. Because our practice focuses on many types of illnesses and injuries, we are able to coordinate claims for benefits to maximize the recovery for our clients.
How to Reach Us:
We do not advertise on television, and if you look in the yellow pages under personal injury, you will not see a large ad touting our services. We receive most of our referrals from our clients, other lawyers, and people who work in the medical, legal, or court systems. Our lawyers and legal assistants are available and happy to speak with you to answer any questions you may have about your current situation at no cost to you.