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Statutes of Limitation
This segment of The Law and You features personal injury attorney Don Corson discussing how statutes of limitation work in a civil case and how acting quickly in such cases can make all the difference. TRANSCRIPT JOEL: This is Joel Block for The Law and You with...
Personal Injury Cases Bring Change and Help Others
This segment of The Law and You explores how personal injury cases often not only bring justice to the injured person but also prompt changes that help others avoid the same pain and suffering. TRANSCRIPT JOEL: This is Joel Block for The Law and You with Eugene...
Degree of Fault Is Critical
This segment of The Law and You focuses on the evolution of the concept of liability or fault in determining who wins and for how much in civil justice cases. TRANSCRIPT JOEL: This is Joel Block for The Law and You with Eugene attorney Don Corson. Don, what happens...
Know Your Rights in Working With Attorneys
In this segment of The Law and You, personal injury trial lawyer Don Corson talks about how the Client-Attorney relationship is supposed to work. TRANSCRIPT JOEL: This is Joel Block for The Law and You with Eugene attorney Don Corson. Don, attorneys talk a lot about...
Punitive Damages Help Crime Victims and Discourage Misconduct
This segment of The Law and You features personal injury trial lawyer Don Corson talking about punitive damages. TRANSCRIPT JOEL: This is Joel Block for The Law and You with Eugene attorney Don Corson. Don, sometimes we hear about punitive damages in lawsuits. What...
Most Jurors Find the Experience Worthwhile
This segment of The Law and You features personal injury trial lawyer Don Corson talking about jury service. TRANSCRIPT JOEL: This is Joel Block for The Law and You with Eugene attorney Don Corson. Don, we all know that juries are important, but we often want to find...
Calculation of Losses Not “Frivolous”
This segment of The Law and You features personal injury trial lawyer Lara Johnson explaining why personal injury lawsuit claim amounts may sometimes seem large. TRANSCRIPT JOEL: This is Joel Block for The Law and You with Eugene attorney, Lara Johnson. Lara, there...
Criminal and Civil Cases: Finding Justice
This segment of The Law and You explains the difference between criminal and civil justice systems, with examples of common cases in each system and their typical outcomes. TRANSCRIPT JOEL: This is Joel Block for The Law and You with Eugene attorney Don Corson. Don,...
Cases Create a Safer World
This segment of The Law and You features personal injury trial attorney Don Corson discussing the role of the civil jury system in making our communities safer. TRANSCRIPT JOEL: This is Joel Block for The Law and You with Eugene attorney Don Corson. Don, you’ve seen...
Arbitration Clauses
This segment of The Law and You features personal injury trial lawyer Lara Johnson discussing arbitration clauses. A qualified, experienced attorney can help you protect your rights when dealing with arbitration clauses. TRANSCRIPT JOEL: This is Joel Block for The...
What to Do After a Serious Auto Collision
This segment of The Law and You features personal injury trial lawyer Don Corson discussing what you should do if you are in car, truck or motorcycle accidents.
Braking Unsafe Trucking Companies
This segment of The Law and You features personal injury trial lawyer Don Corson discussing a national effort to reduce deaths and serious injury due to unsafe trucking practices.
Driving While Drowsy
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), drowsy driving causes over 100,000 crashes per year, leaving 71,000 people injured and 1,500 dead. What many people do not realize is that lack of deep, restful sleep can impair the human brain as much as alcohol.
Truck Collision Causes Blindness
This segment of The Law and You features Eugene, Oregon personal injury trial lawyer Don Corson speaking about a case where he helped Larry Woody, who went blind due to an collision caused by a truck.
Government Should Be Responsible for Public Playgrounds’ Safety
This segment of The Law and You features personal injury trial lawyer Don Corson explaining that the law needs to change to allow recourse for a person injured on public playgrounds and other public recreational lands. TRANSCRIPT JOEL: This is Joel Block for The Law...
The “Silent Epidemic”of Brain Injuries
This segment of The Law and You features personal injury trial lawyer Don Corson on the subject of the “silent epidemic” of brain injuries and their two major causes–motor vehicle collisions and falls.
Oregon Law Requires Annual Concussion Training for Coaches
This segment of The Law and You features personal injury trial lawyer Lara Johnson discussing new requirements for concussion training for coaches.
Preventable Propane Stove Explosion Kills Two at Home
This segment of The Law and You features personal injury trial lawyer Don Corson discussing one of his firm’s wrongful death cases where a couple died in their home when an incorrectly-installed propane gas stove exploded. TRANSCRIPTJOEL: This is Joel Block for The...
Oregon Law On Crash Reporting
This segment of The Law and You features personal injury trial lawyer Lara Johnson telling about crash notification requirements in Oregon.
Going Beyond Workers Compensation
This segment of The Law and You features personal injury trial lawyer Don Corson discussing a case where a client he represented was not fully covered by workers compensation after an accident. If you have a case that you would like legal advice on, please contact us....
Water Safety Laws on Oregon’s Rivers
This segment of The Law and You features Oregon personal injury trial lawyer Don Corson discussing the importance of life jackets in water safety. TRANSCRIPT JOEL: This is Joel Block for The Law and You with Eugene attorney Don Corson. Don, a few years ago, we talked...
Can Liability Releases Hold Up In Court?
This segment of The Law and You addresses pre-printed liability releases found on the backs of tickets. TRANSCRIPT JOEL: This is Joel Block for The Law and You with Eugene attorney Don Corson. Don, we’ve all been to events or activities where on the back of our ticket...
Few Records Are Truly Private When You Are in Litigation
This segment of The Law and You addresses the importance of having an experienced trial lawyer in personal injury litigation and making sure your attorney is aware of all your records. TRANSCRIPT JOEL: This is Joel Block for The Law and You with Eugene attorney Don...
Case Brings Injured Worker Justice
This segment of The Law and You features personal injury trial lawyer Don Corson telling of a “third party case” he filed for an injured worker to hold a manufacturer responsible for the defective machinery that was responsible for the worker’s injury. TRANSCRIPT...
Oregon’s Mental Health Care Act
This segment of The Law and You features personal injury trial lawyer Lara Johnson discussing the new Oregon law that requires health insurance companies to provide stronger mental health coverage in their group plans. TRANSCRIPT JOEL: This is Joel Block for The Law...
Don’t Wait if You’re in a Collision With an Underinsured Motorist
This segment of The Law and You features personal injury trial lawyer Lara Johnson discussing a situation when you might suffer damage and/or injury caused by a motorists who is underinsured.
Your Right to Access and Amend Your Medical Records
This segment of The Law and You features personal injury trial lawyer Lara Johnson discussing your right to your own medical records. TRANSCRIPT JOEL: This is Joel Block for The Law and You with Eugene attorney Lara Johnson. Lara, there have been many laws passed to...
Insurers Demand Payback From Settlements
This segment of The Law and You features Oregon personal injury trial lawyer Don Corson discussing how reimbursement is often demanded from a health insurer from a personal injury survivor's settlement. TRANSCRIPT JOEL: This is Joel Block for The Law and You with...
Legal Action For Damaged Vehicles
This segment of The Law and You features personal injury trial lawyer Lara Johnson discussing how adequate collision coverage, and sometimes legal action, is needed to recover the full property loss in a collision.
Why Your Own Insurance Company Should Pay Your Claim More Promptly
This segment of The Law and You features personal injury trial lawyer Don Corson telling of insurance disputes where the insurer was required to pay more because of delays. TRANSCRIPT JOEL: This is Joel Block for The Law and You with Eugene attorney Don Corson. Don, I...
Insurance Red Tape: How Betty Won
This segment of The Law and You features attorney Lara Johnson telling of a case where a client’s insurance company suggested that she sue her friend after being in an auto accident.
Bicycle-Car Collision: How Ryan Fought Back
This segment of The Law and You features Eugene, Oregon personal injury trial lawyer Don Corson speaking about a case where he helped a man involved in a bicycle-car collision fight back against an insurance company who accused him of wrongdoing.
Laws That Protect Corporations from Responsibility for Unsafe Products
This segment of The Law and You focuses on the statute of ultimate repose, a law that protects corporations from full responsibility for harm caused by unsafe products they were involved in designing, manufacturing, and distributing.
Adult Drugs and Child Poisonings
This segment of The Law and You features Eugene, Oregon personal injury trial lawyer Lara Johnson bringing awareness to the child poisoning threat posed by access to adult drugs.
Nursing Home Residents Sign Away Their Rights
When someone enters a nursing home, there is a mountain of paperwork to fill out. Sometimes the paperwork is completed by the resident, sometimes by a family member. People should have time to review the documents, ask questions, and have the documents reviewed by a trusted friend or an attorney before signing them.
Crosswalk Laws: A Driver’s Guide
This segment of The Law and You features personal injury trial lawyer Don Corson bringing awareness on Oregon’s crosswalk laws and how they keep pedestrians safe from injury.
Nursing Homes are Overmedicating Residents to Keep Them Docile
“Our elderly parents, grandparents, and other loved ones should be treated with the utmost respect, yet too many nursing homes are cited with abuses that we don’t know about. This report from Human Rights Watch on over medicating is horrendous,” said Attorney Lara Johnson, who prosecutes elder abuse cases and served on the Oregon Governor’s Elder Abuse Prevention Workgroup.
New Laws That Protect Elders
House Bill 2205 expanded the list of mandatory reporters of elder abuse. Under the new law, public or private official mandatory reporters include attorneys, dentists, optometrists, and chiropractors.
Choosing the Right Nursing Home or Assisted Living Center
Nursing homes, whether called skilled nursing facilities, residential care facilities, memory care centers, or assisted living centers, now rival restaurant chains as a growing presence on the American landscape.
Riding Lawnmowers and Child Safety
This segment of The Law and You features personal injury trial lawyer Don Corson bringing awareness to the child safety threat that riding lawnmowers and other home power equipment present.
Riding Lawnmower Blind Spots: Safety Tips to Prevent Injuries to Children
Riding lawnmowers are the single biggest cause of child lower limb amputations in the U.S. The most serious amputations typically involve a riding lawnmower that is backing up and runs over a very young child the adult operator did not see.
Keep Your Brain in Check with the Brain Bucket Brigade
Our law firm teamed with local shop Bicycle Way of Life to start the Brain Bucket Brigade. Every year, this program provides bike helmets to kids who might otherwise be unable to afford such a basic safety necessity.
The Brain Bucket Brigade—Let’s Put Helmets on Heads
The folks at Bicycle Way of Life make sure each child is properly fitted with their new helmet and coached on when/how to replace it.
CDC Pedestrian Safety
In 2017, 5,977 pedestrians were killed in traffic crashes in the United States. That’s about one death every 88 minutes
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
NHTSA raises awareness of the dangers to pedestrians by providing safety tips, educational material and other resources.