Dr.Aaron Deshaw Law Blog
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Dr.Aaron DeShaw, Esq. P.C. offers something special to people with serious personal injuries from motor vehicle collisions or as a result of medical malpractice. Handling injuries from Car & Truck accidents, injury, slip, trip and fall accidents, DUI accidents, wrongful death, bike accidents, and pedestrian accidents. The blog on their website contains all of Dr.Aaron's achievements as a..
Dr.Aaron Deshaw Law Blog
1M ago
Our Portland personal injury law firm is quite different because we have specific ways that we handle personal injury cases based upon our extensive knowledge of the insurance industry. One example is that based upon Dr. DeShaw's extensive knowledge of insurance bodily injury claim software (Colossus, ClaimIQ, Liability Navigator) as the author of the only book on that topic, we handle our settlement offer letters (often called "demand letters") in a specific way based upon the insurer's software. This provides insurers the best opportunity to provide the best settlement offer to our clients b ..read more
Dr.Aaron Deshaw Law Blog
1M ago
Can a car insurance company refuse to pay a claim? Oregon car accident attorney Aaron DeShaw answers your questions and more. Perhaps this is a familiar story to you: you pay your premiums on time every month. You have few (if any) driving infractions, and you always drive safely and defensively. Then, one day, another driver hits you from out of nowhere—and you have to file your first car insurance claim. You may be full of questions: What if the auto insurance company refuses to pay for the rental car or hospital bill? What if the car insurance company refuses to pay for an MRI? What h ..read more
Dr.Aaron Deshaw Law Blog
3M ago
This is an overview of the challenges, obstacles and nuances of a case we recently settled two days before trial in federal court. This client sustained a head laceration, mild traumatic brain injury and arm injury when an electric bicycle display fell on her while shopping. The client had cognitive changes, behavioral changes, visual system changes and ongoing severe headaches. Her treatment was significantly limited by her health care insurer and more notably by being injured just before COVID-19 health care facility closures and limitations. As a result, the case was adversely impacted due ..read more
Dr.Aaron Deshaw Law Blog
3M ago
The following is a summary of a recent outcome in a claim against Lyft's insurer Indian Harbor, State Farm and a Lyft driver. This is one of several serious / catastrophic cases our law firm has handled against rideshare companies such as Uber and Lyft or their insurers. Our client sustained serious injuries when struck while riding in a Lyft rideshare vehicle. Our law firm navigated complex factual, medical and insurance issues on behalf of this client in a case that has now been ongoing for several years. The facts are contested by both parties. In this litigation we alleged that the Cl ..read more
Dr.Aaron Deshaw Law Blog
3M ago
After decades of dispute by lower courts, the Oregon Supreme Court finally has upheld an Oregon insurance policyholder's ability to file litigation against their own insurer for failure to make a good faith offer in an insurance claim. Oregon was one of only three states in the United States that failed to recognize "first party bad faith" despite passing a version of the insurance industry's Unfair Claims Practice Act into law in the late 1960s and updating it in the 1970s. For reasons that have remained a mystery for decades, Oregon's lower courts viewed the statute as providing no legal rig ..read more
Dr.Aaron Deshaw Law Blog
3M ago
Our Oregon law firm has been retained by a passenger sitting near the defective door on Alaska Air Flight 1282. If you are a fellow passenger on Alaska Air Flight 1282, we would appreciate you contacting our office online or calling us at (503) 782-9750 to provide a witness statement. If you are seeking an Alaska Air Flight 1282 lawyer, our office has extensive background with both Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ("PTSD") and inner ear injuries that can occur with rapid pressure changes caused by trauma, explosions or rapid aviation depressurization. Our office is already in contact with the Vi ..read more
Dr.Aaron Deshaw Law Blog
1y ago
It is important that people injured in an Oregon truck crash, or are injured by a commercial vehicle (such as those owned by Amazon, UPS, FedEx), buses or garbage trucks, to hire an Oregon truck crash lawyer. Crashes caused by commercial vehicles involve substantially different laws than typical auto accident cases.   ..read more
Dr.Aaron Deshaw Law Blog
1y ago
Oregon trial lawyer, Aaron DeShaw, has obtained a $77,523,748.93 compensatory damage verdict in the case of M.M. & N.S. v. Nicolopoulos - believed to be the largest personal injury jury verdict in Oregon history. This case achieved regional and national news when it first occurred, and is now making news due to the jury's verdict. In addition to it being the largest compensatory damage jury verdict (with no punitive damages) in Oregon history, it is also believed to be the second largest amputation verdict in US history. In March of 2018 Defendant Nicolopoulos brought his girlfriend to Lin ..read more