Posts under ‘auto accident back surgery lawyer’

If you received any sort of medical treatment after the accident, you will have to worry about medical bills and health insurance claims as well as auto insurance claims. Auto insurance should cover your medical treatment, but hospitals prefer not to wait to work out who was at fault. If you were not able to [...]

A good portion of our society believes that our justice system is out of control.  There have been dozens and dozens reports by the media over the years about how some person received milions of dollars from a jury for what at first blush appears to be a minor injury or insignificant dispute.  The

I just got off the telephone with a client of mine who was quite upset over how her personal injury case was progressing.  It wasn’t her attorney, she explained.  What bothered her was that the accident occurred more than four years ago and the case was still going on.  A lawsuit had been filed two [...]

Often I am asked what is the biggest mistake that personal injury victims can make.  I discuss the most common mistakes that I see representing personal injury victims in my book, “The Ten Biggest Mistakes That Can Wreck Your Washington Accident Case.”  But which one of these mistakes is the biggest? Or the most common?
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Yesterday there was 2-car crash that occurred in Seattle at or near the intersection of Beacon Avenue South and South Ferdinand Streets.  One of the drivers was an 83-year-old man who was trapped in his vehicle after it overturned following the crash.  Both drivers were taken to Harborview Medical Center.  There was no word on which driver [...]

King 5 TV recently reported that the number of uninsured motorist in Washington State is on the rise.  Approximately 17% of all motorists now have no insurance.  Washington now ranks 10th highest in the nation when it comes to the number of uninsured drivers.  Now King 5 is saying that this number is on the [...]

I handle many auto accident cases where my client ultimately needs neck or back surgery.  Often times the surgery is not recommended for several months or sometimes years following the accident.  Unless the injuries were acute and severe (i.e., broken vertebrae, clear herniation, etc.), most back injuries are going to be treated conservatively.  Conservative treatment means the [...]