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Personal Injury Basics: 4 Elements of Negligence: Part 1: Duty
For any successful negligence claim, you first have to show that one party had a reasonable standard of care. Read more » Does It Matter Why I Was at a Location When I Was Injured?
Depending on your reasoning for being at a location changes the duty owed to you by the owner of the property and keeping you safe. Read more » Can You Trust the Other Person’s Insurance Adjuster?
At the end of the day, their duty is to their insured as well as their insurance company is limiting their exposure. Read more » Can You Still Get Compensation From the Insurance Company After Settling?
The vast majority of the time, personal injury settlements are a one-and-done type of scenario. Read more » What Is a Premises Liability Case?
It is the case of a dangerous condition, meaning that you were injured while on the property of another person due to their negligence. Read more » How Should You Document Your Experiences From a Personal Injury Matter?
Everything that you can document really helps build the foundation for your case and saves a lot of time down the road. Read more » How Do You Increase the Value of Your Property Damage After a Car Wreck?
After your car wreck, likely the insurance company will give you an offer on your property damage, now whether that's totaled out, or whether that's damage to your vehicle. Read more » What Should You Do With Your Paperwork After a Car Wreck?
After a car wreck, there is an absolute mountain of paperwork that you could be receiving ranging from insurance companies, medical providers. Read more » Should You Take Pictures of Your Wounds After a Car Wreck?
After the car wreck, the first thing you're going to be more concerned with is definitely treating some of those wounds. Read more » Do You Really Have Full Coverage Insurance?
Delve into it a bit more to see what type of coverage you're actually getting, and while you're at it, you might ask them how much would it be to add under-insured motorist coverage or med pay coverage to your policy. Read more » What Does It Mean if You Have a Medical Lien Filed After a Car Wreck?
A medical lien is similar to a mechanics lien. A medical lien is attached to your insurance claim, following a motor vehicle collision. Read more » When Should You Write Down What Happened After a Car Wreck?
We've had the most success with clients who were able to write down everything that they remember about the car wreck as soon as they could after it happened. Read more » Can You Get Compensation if You Are the Passenger in a Car That Caused a Car Wreck?
You could be considered a no-fault passenger, meaning that you just happened to be in the car while someone else was the one who was in control of the vehicle and the one that actually caused the wreck. Read more » Are Dog Bites Covered by Homeowner’s Insurance or Renter’s Insurance?
A lot of policies allow you to add additional coverage for pets that you keep in your home, just in case they end up hurting someone else. Read more » Do You Need to Tell Your Doctors About Your Injuries After a Car Wreck?
A lot of the time people don't want to come across as whiners. They don't want to be seen as complaining about every little thing that's going on, but in the case of a motor vehicle collision, it could be very beneficial to fully express to your doctors everything that's going on with you. Read more » Is the Owner of a Dog the Only One Responsible if You Are Bitten by a Dog?
I had a client who was visiting an apartment complex, and one of the tenant's dogs better on the arm. Now, the dog in question had a pretty serious past. It had attacked several of the other tenants, as well as a couple of other animals, and the landlord who ran the unit was aware of this. They knew of the dog's history, and yet they still allowed the tenant to keep the dog on the premises. Now, by doing that, they have potentially opened themselves up to being liable for the injuries to the person as well, and in that particular case, we were able to help get our client compensation for her injuries at the apartment complex. Read more » Do You Need to Call the Police After a Motor Vehicle Collision?
Without the police there, there's no ref calling balls strikes, anything like that. It was kind of he said, she said scenario. Read more » Should You Ask for Witness Statements After a Motor Vehicle Collision?
Most of the time, you're probably not going to get too many people to stop. It's one of the unfortunate realities nowadays. But if you are able to get someone who is stopping at the scene, checking to see if people are all right, just ask them, "Hey, would you mind if I get a brief statement from you?" Read more » What's Your Right to Speedy Trial in Muscogee (Creek) Tribal Court?
What is your right to a speedy trial in the Muscogee Creek Nation Tribal Court? Tulsa Attorney, James Wirth has that answer. Read more » Never DON'T Sign Your Traffic Ticket!
All right, so you get pulled over for some sort of traffic offense and you're kind of upset about it and the officer's going over with you and you dispute what happened. They say you're going this fast, you know you weren't and you want to contest it and you can't wait to get into court. So you're in that frame of mind and the officer asks you, "Why don't you sign here on the ticket?" Sometimes people's gut reaction is, "Well, I don't agree with that. I don't want to sign the ticket. I want to contest this. I want to go to court." And I've had people call me after the fact, so angry with the way the officer responded when they refuse to sign, where they're threatening to take them to jail and all that and they're very angry with the way the officer handled it and I have to kind of explain to it. Read more » When You Don't Need a Lawyer for Your Speeding Ticket in Oklahoma
So, first off, if you get a speeding ticket, first thing we want to find out is, are you a CDL holder? Do you have a commercial driver's license? If you do, you're going to want to have an attorney, because even for minor infractions, even ones that wouldn't cause a regular driver to have problems, even ones that wouldn't cause it to be reported to their insurance, it does get reported if it's a CDL, and it can cause big problems, not just for you and your license, but for your employer and your employer's insurance. Read more » Consummation of a Marriage & Annulment: Does It Matter?
A lot of people think as long as the marriage hasn't been consummated, that you're eligible to get an annulment. That as long as you don't do that, no matter how long you've been there in the marriage, you can go ahead and file for that annulment, that that's the main factor that judges look at or that the law requires, and unfortunately I'm here to tell you it's not. It doesn't matter. It's somewhat irrelevant. Read more » Don't Just Pay that Oklahoma Traffic Ticket! It Could Cost Your License!
So first off, pretty much every traffic citation you have, that you could receive in Oklahoma, has a point value assigned to it. And if those points add up to 10 points within five years, you lose your license and I can give you some examples of each of the levels of those. Read more » Did You Accidentally Get Married at H&R Block, Without Knowing It?
Common law marriage exists and is live and well in Oklahoma. So how do you enter into one? Sometimes it's very simple. Basically what the law says is that you have to have an agreement to be married and you have to cohabitate. There's no specific amount of time you have to be cohabitating, and the agreement doesn't have to be written down or anything. Read more » A Surprising Thing Most Don't Know About Mutual Oklahoma Protective Orders
Are there mutual protective orders in Oklahoma? What is a mutual Oklahoma protective order? Tulsa attorney has the answer to both of these major concerns affecting those in the state of Oklahoma. Just because one party makes a good case for a protective order and the judge maybe thinks it should be mutual, they can't do it mutual on that basis. Each party must separately make their case and then there's two separate protective orders, just pointing different directions. In Oklahoma, there are no mutual protective orders, but each party can get a protective order against the other if they prove their case individually. Read more »
