Portland Personal Injury Lawyer
Discussion of personal injury law and legal issues, with Oregon focus.
Author: Jane Paulson, who edits this blawg, is an Oregon lawyer.
Blawg Related Categories: Tort Law • Injury & Accident Law • States • Oregon • Legal Information
Recent Posts from Portland Personal Injury Lawyer
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Two Teens Die in Oregon Car Accident
Two teenagers from Roseburg, Oregon died on Friday, March 28 after the car they were riding in swerved off the road, hit an electrical pole, hit a tree, and then flipped over. The 15-year-old driver,…
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Toxins in Fish Sicken Many in U.S.
The FDA has announced that there have been at least 28 reports of consumers getting sick from ciguatera fish poisoning. The fish that were eaten were harvested in the northern Gulf of Mexico. The first…
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Paricon Recalls Children's Snow and Sand Castle Kits Because of Sharp Edges
Paricon, in conjunction with the CPSC, is recalling about 800 Children's Snow and Sand Castle Kits because the largest plastic castle block maker in the kit can crack at the handle during when being used,…
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Car and Train Collide Because of Text-Massaging Driver
An Oregon man crashed into a freight train on Tuesday, October 16 at around 2 a.m. The driver, Robert Gillespie, and the crew on-board the train were not seriously injured.Gillespie told rescue workers that he…
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Xcel Energy HydroPlant Chemical Fire Kills Five Contract Workers
A smoldering fire 1000 ft. inside a tunnel at a hydro-electric plant outside of Georgetown, Colorado, developed late Tuesday, killing five contract workers of the company as they tried in vain to escape. The five…
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Worker Dies in Wind Tower Collapse
Chadd Mitchell died on Saturday at a wind farm that is under construction in Oregon. Mitchell was killed when a 242-foot-tall tower he was working on fell over.Mitchell, of Goldendale, Washington, was working at the…
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Certain Models of Triple-Channel Infusion Pumps Recalled
On Friday, the FDA alerted healthcare professionals of a class 1 recall of certain models of an upgraded triple-channel volumetric infusion pump made by Colleague and Colleague CX. A software malfunction may sound an alarm…
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Three More Chinese Toy Recalls
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced three more Chinese toy recalls. Children's jewelry sets were recalled because they contained lead, and a magnetic building set and plastic castles were recalled because they could be…
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Numb Tongue From Wisdom Tooth Removal
Most people have their wisdom teeth removed -- the 3rd molars. If the teeth are removed wrong a patient can leave the oral surgery or dental office with a permanently numb tongue. The lingual nerve…
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New Book Reveals Where Doctors Go Wrong
An article in Time magazine discusses a doctor's new book on why doctors make medical mistakes. The research found that 80% of medical mistakes are due to thinking errors on the part of the doctors…