Common Preventable Injuries That May Alter Your Life for Good

Work Injury

Most incidents or accidents happen due to the other parties’ sheer negligence. They can be individuals, organizations, etc. For example, checking and double-checking whether your equipment is up to standards before selling them in the market can be one way to ensure consumers’ safety. How do you know your helmet is hard enough? Or, it can protect you in case something goes wrong? It is only one example, while there are plenty of scenarios that cause enough harm to people’s wellbeing and lives, amounting to deaths even. The victims of such cases can approach personal injury lawyers from their cities for compensation from the parties at fault. Here are some examples where you have the legal right to claim damage.

Vehicle accidents

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9 Ways To Avoid Getting Duped By Insurance Company Settlement Tactics

How-To

Every now and then, not often, but once in a while, you run across a truly outstanding informational resource online.

An authoritative, in-depth, well-researched, and well-written piece that was put together by an obvious industry expert.

It’s the kind of thing you bookmark so you’ll always know right where to find it when the day comes that you just might need it.

That is exactly the type of information that TriMark Legal Funding likes to provide for our clients and visitors every day.

What follows is a tremendous article by Portland Attorney Travis Mayor.

Travis launched his legal career at a large personal injury insurance defense firm in Oregon. Travis negotiated on behalf of clients in both state and federal court. As an insurance defense attorney, Travis gained a wealth of valuable experience and meaningful insight into how the insurance industry defends itself in personal injury claims. Then he leveraged this experience and opened his own personal injury firm in Portland, Oregon.

Travis’ insight is invaluable to his clients in Portland, but TriMark serves a nationwide clientele. With the exception of where Travis cites Oregon statutes, we felt that this article could be highly beneficial to personal injury victims throughout the United States, so we are featuring it here.

Jury returns $3.2 million verdict against Alaska Airlines in wrongful death lawsuit

Wrongful Death

A jury returned a verdict Monday against Alaska Airlines for $3,189,672 in a wrongful death lawsuit filed against it after a woman’s fall down a Portland International Airport escalator in June 2017 in Oregon.

The family of Bernice Kekona, a Spokane, Washington woman who died four months after her fall, filed a wrongful death suit against Alaska Airlines in December 2017, alleging neglect at the airport contributed to her injuries.

The airline filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit but a U.S. District Judge ruled against the motion in March 2018.