Recent news reports across the state of Oregon have highlighted an important roadway safety issue that deserves to be addressed from a legal perspective. Last week, a series of articles sprung up across Portland area news channels concerning a local transport union’s ongoing contract bargaining dispute. At the time, activists and an organization called Oregonians … Read More
Oregon Hit-and-Run Accidents and Insurance Claims
Two high-profile cases in Oregon involving hit-and-run accidents have recently been resolved in criminal court. A man in Medford Oregon, Othon Campos, Jr., was sentenced to three years for striking three adolescents in late August. According to a story in Medford’s Mail-Tribune, one of the children, an 11-year-old girl, was sent to Portland with the … Read More
Memo to the Oregon Legislature: Healthcare Transformation Starts with Patient Safety
In its February, 2012, session, the Oregon Legislature grappled with proposed health care transformation bill. In the course of the session, we learned that some legislators are more concerned about “defensive medicine” and establishing arbitrary limits on access to justice for Oregonians who are on the Oregon Health Plan (OHP) or Medicaid than they are … Read More