A retired hardware store owner was recovering from throat surgery in a public hospital. A traveling nurse from a national healthcare staffing company was assigned to provide his care, including the administration of food through a nasogastric tube. Instead of hooking up the food line to the tube in his nose, the nurse connected it […]
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Whitewater: Drowning Death
When Don was working on the wrongful death case of former University of Oregon Law School Dean Chapin Clark, he knew what happened should have been against the law. Clark was killed in 2002 on the Rogue River during a professionally guided fishing trip, because the outfitter and guide lacked the necessary rescue skills and […]
Read Full StoryMultiple Truck Collision: Wrongful Death of Child
One night in southern Douglas County, Oregon, thick smoke filled a long valley through which the Interstate 5 freeway travels. A nine year-old girl was in the back seat of her mother’s car, stopped behind a flatbed truck that had also stopped because of the smoke.
Read Full StoryTruck-Auto Collision: Wrongful Death
A ten-year-old child was riding home with the grandmother and aunt in a car traveling west on Highway 34 in rural Linn County, Oregon.
Read Full StoryLandslide From Negligent Logging
Don Corson was the lead liability lawyer on multiple wrongful death and personal injury actions arising out of a deadly debris torrent in the Oregon Coast Range mountain.
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