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You stopped treatment after the Norman truck crash. The insurer loves that.

A treatment gap after a truck crash in Norman can wreck the value of your claim fast, even when the reason was fear of getting fired.

ARTICLE by Crystal Harjo

Moore crosswalk claim getting wrecked by your Facebook ranch photos?

A driver hit a Moore ranch hand in a marked crosswalk, and now the insurer is waving around social media posts to say the injuries are exaggerated.

ARTICLE by Thi Nguyen

My coworker said the trucking company can erase dashcam logs after a Tulsa crash?

No - the one thing the trucking company is hoping you never find out is that a lot of truck crash evidence can be demanded and preserved, and destroying it after notice can...

Low Settlement Offer After a Recorded Statement

If the insurance company is treating a pedestrian's broken leg like a quick payout and using your own recorded words against you, the case is not automatically dead in Oklahoma.

ARTICLE by Crystal Harjo

Employer Liability for Crashes During Work Travel

If you were on the clock in your employer's vehicle when the crash happened, your company usually does not get to pretend it was just your personal problem.

ARTICLE by Keisha Mitchell

Nearly out of time in Moore and the adjuster is still blaming an old disc?

A project manager in Moore got sideswiped in heavy traffic, now the insurer says the disc injury was preexisting and the two-year deadline is getting dangerously close.

ARTICLE by Crystal Harjo

You just got a letter that says the truck involved in the crash was driven by an "owner-operator," and suddenly the case looks less straightforward than it did at the scene. An...

Oklahoma Hospital Back Injuries and Light Duty Pressure

When an Oklahoma nurse gets hurt moving a patient, the fight usually turns into whether the hospital can box that injury into workers' comp and force a fake return to work before the body is ready.

ARTICLE by Janet Brashear

commercial driver's license

After a serious crash with a semi or work truck, one of the fastest ways to miss a key issue is not knowing whether the driver was even legally qualified to be behind the...

Who is actually employing the truck driver when the driver is hauling for someone else's company? A leased driver is a commercial driver who operates under a leasing...

nuclear verdict

Like calling a storm "catastrophic" after it rips the roof off a house, a "nuclear verdict" means a jury award so large it shocks the people involved and sends everyone...

driver qualification file

You may see this in a crash claim letter, a trucking company's document response, or a lawyer's request for records: "Please produce the driver qualification file for the...

Bar Overservice Liability After a Motorcycle Injury Crash

In Oklahoma, a bar can be on the hook if it served someone who was obviously intoxicated before they hit you, and the DUI case can help prove a civil claim even if the cops wrote no ticket at the scene.

ARTICLE by Marcus Crutchfield

Not just the person behind the wheel, and not automatically the same thing as the truck's owner. A motor carrier is the business or individual that transports people or...

cargo securement

A weak cargo securement case can drain your settlement fast. If a load shifts, spills, or flies off a truck, the money often follows the evidence: what was loaded, how it was...

bellwether trial

A test case picked to show how a group of similar cases may play out. "Test case" means one lawsuit gets pushed to the front while many others wait. "Picked" means it is not...

legal separation

Misunderstand this, and a spouse may move out thinking the marriage is basically over, only to learn later that debts, property rights, and support obligations kept running the...

post-accident drug test

You might see it in a crash report, a trucking company letter, or an insurer's file note: "driver sent for post-accident drug test" or "DOT post-accident testing required."...

What the insurance company does not want you to know is that a claim can get a lot weaker once key evidence gets repaired, thrown away, overwritten, or "lost" before anyone...

FMCSA regulations

Federal safety rules for commercial trucks, bus companies, and the people who run them. "Federal" matters because these rules come from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety...