An elderly driver claimed the setting sun impaired his view when he ran a red light and struck our client, a 38-year-old husband and father, on his bicycle in North Portland. Our client was cycling home from a nearby neighborhood…

Claimant, the father of two young children, developed multiple sclerosis in 2004.  By 2010, his MS symptoms were so fatiguing that he would fall asleep at work.  His cognition was impaired, and he struggled to control his emotions.  Claimant stopped…

Plaintiff worked as program administrator for a technology company, managing a world-wide certification program for nearly 2000 engineers.  Her employer provided long-term disability insurance as part of her compensation package.  In the autumn of 2015, a tick bit her.  She…

Ms. Miller bought a Ford Escape in 2001.  It was manufactured in Missouri.  The Ford caught fire sitting in Ms. Miller’s garage one night in May, 2012 because of a faulty electronic sensor; the fire spread to her home, and…

Zeferino Vasquez was cleaning a jam out of his employer’s hay baler when a hydraulic ram pinched him against the baler’s frame, crushing his spine.  His injuries left him paraplegic.  He filed a workers’ compensation claim and an action against…

Plaintiff, a 67-year-old engineer, rode her upright hybrid bicycle almost daily for over a decade to her job in downtown Portland from her SE Portland home across the Hawthorne Bridge, down its sidewalk ramp, down the connecting walkway and onto…