Portland Personal Injury Lawyer

Millions recovered for Oregon personal injury victims.

Below are some example case result outcomes.

• $1,750,000 for injured motorist. Client's final offer before hiring me was $250,000.
  
  
• $550,000 for injured cyclist. My client was offered $4,000 before he hired me and an Multnomah County jury eventually returned a verdict of $550,000. (PDF Article)
  
  
• $490,000 for injured cyclist.
  
  
• $667,000 for injured cyclist. Broken collarbone, wrist, jaw, and teeth. Before trial, my client's final offer was $130,000. Jury awarded $667,000.
  
  
• $425,000 for injured motorcyclist.
  
  
• $300,000 for injured cyclist.
  
  
• $300,000 for injured motorist
  
  
• Over $300,000 recovered for drunk driving accident victim.
  
  
• Policy limit jury verdict for injured police officer.
  
  
• $258,000 verdict for sternum and back injury. Allstate made no offers on the case. A Clackamas County jury awarded $7,000 in medical expenses and $250,000 in pain and suffering.
  
  
• $167,000 jury verdict for back injury. American Family Insurance offered $25,000 and a Multnomah County Jury awarded $167,000 on April 13th, 2007.
  
  
• $138,000 Washington County jury verdict for client with injured shoulder. Country Insurance offered $1,500 as their only settlement offer.
  
  
• $150,000 for injured motoryclist
  
  
• $75,000 jury verdict for dog bite victim.

In some of these examples I hope that it is clear that the initial settlement offer was significantly unfair and much less than the Oregon jury's verdict after I went to trial on behalf of my client and won a fair settlement amount.

These examples also illustrate that it is important to hire a Portland personal injury lawyer who is a skilled and experienced trial lawyer with a record of being effective at trial and getting the lawyer's client a fair settlement amount.

Trial is not always necessary, but an accomplished trial lawyer will have a reputation with the insurance companies and is more likely to be able to negotiate a fair settlement without the need to go to a trial because it is often enough that your lawyer be known as an effective trial lawyer and you will get a better initial offer from the insurance companies.

I recently tried five separate cases which are good examples of why trial is sometimes necessary. Before trial, the offers of these five cases totaled approximately $181,500. At trial, the juries awarded a total of over $1,715,500. If my clients had hired a lawyer who does not try cases, they would have lost a combined total of around $1,534,000. Most Oregon personal injury lawyers rarely, if ever, try cases. I believe that these attorneys do a great disservice to their clients and cost their clients millions of dollars by settling cases that should have gone to trial.