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Your femur is shattered and the city may owe you - but the clock is brutal

A broken thigh bone in a Eugene delivery crash can be a big case, but city claim caps, a 180-day notice deadline, and an uninsured employer can slash what actually reaches your family.

ARTICLE by Colleen O'Shea

compound fracture

A broken bone that pierces the skin. "Broken bone" means the bone has cracked, split, or snapped enough to lose its normal structure. "Pierces the skin" is the part that makes...

internal fixation

Miss this phrase in your records after a bad fracture, and you may underestimate how serious the injury was, what recovery will cost, and how aggressively an insurer may try to...

A meniscus tear is a rip in the rubbery cartilage inside the knee that cushions the joint and helps keep the thighbone and shinbone moving smoothly. Each knee has two menisci,...

Bend again: the rear-end fire was real, but now the insurer wants to pin it on your old diagnosis

A Bend teacher is dealing with burn injuries after a car fire, and the insurance company is trying the usual move: blame a prior medical condition so they can pay less.

ARTICLE by Tanya Richardson

fibromyalgia after trauma

The part that trips people up most is that severe, ongoing pain can be real even when an X-ray, MRI, or blood test looks normal. Fibromyalgia after trauma means a person...

soft tissue injury

Why does everything hurt when the X-ray looks "normal"? Usually because the damage is in the body's soft tissues - muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia, and other connective...

Just left the ER in Hillsboro and HR says I signed away court

A hotel laundry press mangled her hand, the safety guard failed, and now the employer is waving an arbitration clause like that settles everything.

ARTICLE by Nate Clearwater

Hillsboro clinic gap and a cheap offer now - do you settle before your back treatment is done?

A treatment gap in a Hillsboro ladder-fall claim can wreck the value fast, especially when the insurer blames your disc problems on age or your old VA-rated condition.

ARTICLE by Brian Lindstrom

Insurance said the policy was tiny after a Hillsboro crash - that may be a lie

A ruptured spleen after a high-speed crash is a major injury, and being undocumented does not give an Oregon insurer a free pass to hide policy limits or lowball the claim.

ARTICLE by Laura Whitfield

my back is wrecked after a rear-end crash on I-5 near Eugene and now the driver is threatening to sue me for "defamation"

A Eugene dental hygienist with SI joint dysfunction after a rear-end crash is being bullied by the at-fault driver, and the defamation threat is mostly noise unless the claim includes actual lies.

ARTICLE by Janet Yamamoto

Liability for Security Assaults on the Job

Yes, sometimes - but the case gets wrecked fast when injured guards assume workers' comp is the only option, give sloppy statements, or ignore the employer's own screwups.

ARTICLE by Tanya Richardson

Miss this word after a crash or hard jolt, and a neck injury can be brushed off as "just soreness" until the pain gets worse, movement tightens up, and medical records no...

Eugene fall looked minor until the organ damage showed up and now the bills are driving everything

When a Eugene work fall turns into fatal internal injuries and the employer was illegally uninsured, the fight becomes about who has the right to bring the case and which losses belong to the estate versus the family.

ARTICLE by Laura Whitfield

Shared Fault After a Construction Site Fall in Hillsboro

A Hillsboro restaurant server with a skull fracture after a construction-site fall may still have a claim even if the defense says she was careless, but the trucking company's electronic data can vanish fast.

ARTICLE by Maria Gutierrez

My wrists are wrecked from Salem hospital charting and the lien wants everything

A Salem nurse with repetitive wrist injuries can blow a deadline fast, and a hospital lien can swallow a settlement if nobody deals with it early.

ARTICLE by Pavel Novak

Can an insurer in Salem seriously use a seatbelt excuse after a park dog bite?

A Salem dog-bite claim can turn into a blame game fast, but a seatbelt argument in a park attack is usually smoke, not substance.

ARTICLE by Jesse Kowalski

You just got a letter that says an MRI showed a herniated disc after a crash or lifting injury. That means one of the rubbery discs between the bones of the spine has been...

cauda equina syndrome

People often confuse sciatica with cauda equina syndrome, but they are not the same. Sciatica usually means irritation or compression of a single nerve root, causing pain that...

You just got a letter that says your doctor is recommending a laminectomy, and suddenly the paperwork sounds scarier than the injury. A laminectomy is back or neck surgery...