Your personal injury lawyer will submit the Standard Form 95 to start the Federal Tort Claim process. One of the issues in preparing the form is to decide what amount to ask for. The video below describes two mistakes to avoid. To win the best tort claim settlement, every part of the Federal Tort Claim [...]
Personal Injury Attorney blog posts
Evidence of Lost Earning Capacity This post is from the perspective of a Portland personal injury lawyer who has to establish in every serious injury case the future economic effect of disabling injuries. Proof of impairment of earning capacity is made by giving evidence of the difference between the earnings of the injured person before [...]
Personal injury damages amounts Liability to the injured person for an accident injury includes the obligation to pay for all the provable damages. A personal injury attorney must present all the types of damages to get a fair recovery. This series of posts will discuss some of the specific amounts that are included. If the [...]
Dangerous looking car – Could this be an Uninsured Motorist? – Image by Christian Ferrari Often a personal injury lawyer will handle a car accident when the at-fault other driver was uninsured. This is called an uninsured motorist claim. The defendant is your own insurance company. The general statute of limitations for an uninsured motorist [...]
This web site provides information about accident cases. If your accident case has an insured defendant who is clearly at fault, a reasonable insurance adjuster for the defendant, a specific amount of damages that will satisfy you, and the amount of money damages is not a large number, then you may want to handle your [...]
Federal Employee Negligence Can Cause Personal Injury Your personal injury attorney can deal with the procedural requirements for success in bringing a claim against the Federal government for injuries. The Federal claims are made for injury claims caused by Federal employees, acting in the course of their employment. United States law sets out in the [...]
Other driver’s duty of care Car drivers and truck drivers have a fundamental duty under the law to use the utmost care, and the level of diligence of cautious persons. This is referred to as the common law duty of care. Acting below the common law duty of care and causing injury is called common [...]
Most cases handled by a personal injury attorney settle before trial. Some injury claims settle after a demand letter is sent from the personal injury attorney to the insurance adjuster for the defendant. However, to get a full value settlement for a personal injury, it is often necessary for the personal injury attorney to file [...]
This case was to recover for motorcycle accident injuries. As usual, there were issues in the case that the defense hoped to exploit. The offer by the corporate defendant was low, in spite of my presentation as the injured party’s personal injury attorney that argued for a higher offer. Result in Court: The judgment obtained was [...]
This post authored by E. J. Simmons, who regularly deals with negligence issues in his practice as a personal injury attorney in Portland, Oregon. Every injury case must deal with any negligent conduct by the injured person. Some clients feel responsible for the slightest mistake in the events leading up to the injuries, and wonder [...]
