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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...

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

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 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

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

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...

equitable distribution

Insurance companies or defense lawyers may bring up this phrase when a married injured person is pursuing money damages, suggesting that any settlement will just be "split in...

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

How much is a Moore daycare injury settlement for a kid worth?

You may have as little as 1 year to give written notice before you lose the claim if the daycare is run by a public school, city, or other government entity in Oklahoma. The...

I waited months to get therapy after my Norman crash did I ruin my case?

In Oklahoma, crash-related PTSD, anxiety, and depression claims often add about $10,000 to $75,000+ to a case when they are well documented, and no, waiting a few months to...

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...

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

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...

Oklahoma claim or home-state claim after an Edmond Amazon van crash?

If an Amazon delivery van hits you in Edmond while you live somewhere else, the crash usually gets handled under Oklahoma rules, and that changes where the fight happens and how blame gets argued.

ARTICLE by Darrell Whitehawk

$25,000 can disappear fast after a motorcycle wreck, which is worth noting because that is Oklahoma's minimum bodily injury coverage per person. The term "highside" came out of...

Can I file workers' comp if a driver hit me while I was working in Oklahoma City?

Yes - and the mistake that costs people the most money is assuming workers' comp is your only claim. If you were on the clock when a driver hit you in Oklahoma City, you may...

What happens if I use Medicare after a Moore school-zone crash?

The expensive mistake is thinking Medicare pays your crash bills and that is the end of it. It is not. The common wrong answer is: "If Medicare covers treatment, I won't owe...

Is an Edmond crash claim worth it if I'm pregnant and already overwhelmed?

$2,000 to $5,000 for one ER visit with fetal monitoring is common, and that is before follow-up OB visits, missed work, or imaging. Look at your real costs first. If a winter...

Can my sister switch lawyers if insurance blames her old MRI after the crash?

The ER may say the crash aggravated an old back problem. The insurance company will use that same chart note and old MRI to argue "nothing new happened." A common Broken Arrow...