Oregon Personal Injury Lawyer Resources

Oregon injury law runs on two rules most clients have never heard of until something bad happens. The first is the state's modified comparative fault cutoff: if you are found more than 50 percent at fault, you recover nothing, and insurers know it. The second is Oregon's mandatory Personal Injury Protection coverage, which pays your early medical bills and some lost wages no matter who caused the crash. Understanding how those two rules interact is often the difference between a full recovery and a case that quietly gets argued down to nothing.

Oregon generally applies a two-year statute of limitations to personal injury claims, but cases involving public bodies, such as TriMet, ODOT, a city, a county, or a school district, require a tort claim notice filed within a much shorter window, often long before you would expect to involve a lawyer. Medical negligence, product liability, and wrongful death claims each have their own timelines. In my 32 years doing this work, I have seen promising Oregon cases die from missed notice deadlines more than almost any other single mistake.

Goldberg & Loren has a full-time Portland office and handles cases throughout Oregon: Salem, Eugene, Bend, Medford, the coast, and the rural counties where getting a fair settlement often means being ready to travel to a courthouse most firms will not. George Goldberg started the firm after beginning his career in 1994 defending airlines and insurers and switching to the plaintiff side in 1996. That background matters in Oregon, where insurance adjusters are trained to pressure injured people into quick, low settlements before they fully understand the extent of their injuries.

On this page you will find our Oregon articles on car crashes, truck and motorcycle wrecks, bicycle and pedestrian injuries, wrongful death, and the specific ways Oregon PIP, UM/UIM, and health insurance interact inside a claim. The FAQs below cover the questions Oregon clients ask us most often in their first phone call.

If you were hurt anywhere in Oregon, we offer a free consultation and you pay nothing unless we recover money for you. Call us 24/7 at 1-888-352-9243.