[posted by Bryan Dawson, October 16, 2014] Portland’s Bicycle Transportation Alliance is leading a petition campaign to bring pedestrian and bicycle safety improvements to the Portland area’s Tualatin Valley Highway. Given that this road makes three appearances on the list of Oregon’s 60 most dangerous traffic spots, it is a very worthy

[posted by Bryan Dawson, October 21, 2014] Yesterday, insure.com released results of its survey of a national sample of 2,000 insured drivers from across the country. Among the Top Ten mistaken beliefs about insurance coverage were seven that had to do with auto insurance. Here they are:   Top 7 Auto Insurance

[posted by Ben Larson, October 22, 2014] While car accident fatalities and injuries have continued to climb in other countries, Sweden has been engineering around the problem, with a goal to eliminate car injuries and deaths altogether. The plan is called “Vision Zero” and has been in effect since 1997. Check out

  If you’ve ever experienced it, you know what a big explosion you get when your car’s airbag deploys. People often suffer burns, eye injuries, bloody noses and other facial trauma from this life-saving technology. Imagine adding shrapnel to the airbag’s deployment! That’s a possibility with airbags in certain car models. The

[Posted by attorney Bryan Dawson, November 5, 2014] Oregon has just become the third U.S. state to legalize marijuana use for recreational purposes. “Legalization” is actually a misnomer, since the legality it provides is only on the criminal side of the law. In civil law, being high onTHC remains one potential source

Marijuana as a Cause of Death and Injury Dawson Law Group continues its series on the impact of Oregon’s legalization of recreational marijuana. Today, we look at the issue of the personal and public health dangers of weed. Despite the likely criminal justice benefits of “legalizing” (see our prior post for an

On Thursday afternoon, August 12, 2010, Max and bus service in the downtown area came to a screeching halt.  Tragically, both shut downs were injury related.  The system shut down was initially caused when a man apparently fell from the Vista Street bridge onto the light rail tracks.  In order to transport

The civil legal system has increasingly come under fire. It is widely believed that our tort system has become a flawed mess of un-meritorious lawsuits and greedy lawyers searching for any theory for which to bring a claim. The statement, “lawsuits are out of control,” is rarely, if ever questioned in the

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has again attempted to clarify the boundaries of “free speech” in Anderson v. Hermosa Beach, 08-56914, the most recent ruling in long string of federal free speech jurisprudence. The law at issue was a Hermosa Beach City Ordinance banning the operation of tattoo parlors within city

You might have heard someone refer to Oregon, or another US state, as a “no-fault” accident state. What does that mean? No fault coverage comes into play when making a car accident claim on your auto insurance policy. Oregon law mandates personal injury protection benefits, commonly referred to as PIP benefits, in