Recent Blog Posts
WHAT’S UP WITH “DIMINISHED VALUE”?
Your car is worth less after it’s been wrecked. Period. On the blog, we have talked about claiming damages after a car accident, and how to negotiate a better property damage recovery. Hopefully, this article will help give you more information about car accidents and their effect on the value of your vehicle. DIMINISHED VALUE CLAIMS Today,… Read More »
WHAT DOES BACK TO SCHOOL MEAN FOR YOU AND YOUR STUDENT?
Let’s talk about bus safety! As a personal injury lawyer, I have heard many stories about children getting hit by cars as they are trying to go to school. No child should be in danger as they ride the school bus. It is the job of the drivers to have extra caution when they… Read More »
DID YOU KNOW WOMEN ARE MORE LIKELY THAN MEN TO BE SERIOUSLY INJURED IN A CAR CRASH?
When data was analyzed spanning 17 years from 1998 to 2015, a troubling pattern emerged that women were far more likely to experience more serious injuries in motor vehicle crashes than men. Why? A study published Thursday, February 11, 2021, by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (“IIHS”), a research group supported by auto insurers, took… Read More »
HOW DO ATTORNEYS DETERMINE HOW MUCH A CASE IS WORTH?
Yesterday the school nurse told me she arrived on the scene to see Ava lying face down. Her face pressed into the ground by her body and the wheelchair still lying on top of her. A long three minutes before, the nurse was sitting in her office when she got a call telling her… Read More »
WHEN A LOVED ONE IS KILLED IN A CAR CRASH, HOW CAN THE FAMILY AFFORD THE SUDDEN AND UNEXPECTED FUNERAL EXPENSES?
For the grieving family in any wrongful death claim, an additional unexpected consequence of the tragic event is the sudden funeral expense for the deceased. Funeral expenses can be made a part of the wrongful death claim against the adverse, at-fault party, but often- and especially in cases where liability for the death is… Read More »
ON CATASTROPHIC INJURIES AND HOPE
Credit: Hogan Family via KGW8 As we’ve now moved out of 2020 into 2021 I don’t mind telling you that the last year plus it’s been a struggle for me to focus on the positive. But when I do find the positive it feels not much better to know it’s still out there. Anyway,… Read More »
TRAFFIC FATALITIES INCREASED IN 2020
Last month the Columbian published an article from the Associated Press entitled, “Risky Driving: U.S. traffic deaths up despite virus lockdowns”. In the article, the National Safety Traffic Administration (NHTSA) looked at data from the first nine months (January through September) and calculated that the number of people killed on the nation’s highways rose… Read More »
THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGING FOR THE CLARK COUNTY BENCH
Stability is valued in the courts. The rule of law should win out, and the people deciding how that should operate ought to do so consistently. Parties and their lawyers would like to have some measure of predictability when participating—willingly or not—in the criminal or civil justice systems. But the world has a tendency… Read More »
SCHAUERMANN THAYER UPDATES WEB SITE AND BLOG
Last month we updated our website to better serve our clients and to make sure those injured because of someone else’s negligence are able to find the resources and connections they need to protect themselves from overreaching insurance companies. Though the look and feel of the website is more modern and contains much of… Read More »
JUSTICE DELAYED: A PARTIAL SURVEY OF THE PANDEMIC JURY TRIAL SITUATION
The old saying goes, “Justice delayed is justice denied.” With that in mind, courts in Oregon and Washington had until recently been trending toward fast-track systems, implementation of local rules that would push civil cases to be resolved, if at all possible, within a year to fourteen months from the date of the case… Read More »
