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How Insurance Companies Can Legally Shrink Settlements

Subrogation is an area of personal injury law that most folks aren’t aware of. It seems unfair, but your health insurance company or Personal Injury Protection (PIP) carrier may be able to get paid back for any medical bills it paid related to your personal injury claim. Just don’t expect them to pay back…

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Oregon Improves their Auto Insurance Rules

Good news from Oregon. All that time those persistent Oregon trial lawyers, including our attorney Don Jacobs, spent testifying in the Oregon State Capitol finally paid off. Governor Kate Brown recently signed a law that, effective January 01, 2016, will require Under-Insured/Uninsured Motorists (UIM/UM) insurance stacking and apply the “made-whole” rule to Personal Injury…

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Clark County Judge Johnson Returns to Her Dahlias

Nothing lasts forever. Unless you expire on the bench, everybody returns to civilian life at some point. Tuesday, March 31st will be Judge Barbara Johnson’s final day. She didn’t get to the mandatory retirement age of 75. But other than our somewhat recently retired Judge Bob Harris, I can’t remember another who did. But…

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