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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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

Insurance companies and defense lawyers often use this phrase as a warning label. They may accuse an injured person's lawyer of using "reptile theory" to stir up fear, inflame...

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...

hours of service

You'll usually see this in a crash report, insurer letter, or trucking company file as "HOS," "driver logs," "ELD data," or a note about a driver being "out of hours." That's...

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...

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."...

event data recorder

What was the vehicle doing in the seconds before impact? An event data recorder is a device built into a car, truck, or other vehicle that captures short bursts of technical...

electronic logging device

The part that catches people off guard is that an electronic logging device does not just track miles or location. It is a tamper-resistant device tied to a commercial truck's...

multidistrict litigation panel

You just got a letter that says your lawsuit may be sent to an MDL, and the name that jumps out is the multidistrict litigation panel. That usually means a group of judges has...

Insurance Recovery After an Oklahoma Four-Wheeler Accident

What actually happens in Oklahoma when an ATV passenger gets hurt without a helmet, and how insurers try to use that against the claim.

ARTICLE by Janet Brashear