Every day we help our personal injury clients get winning results
At Reed Law Firm, we understand the profound impact personal injuries can have. Bad drivers have hurt our family members, we’ve seen burn victims scarred at a young age.
We focus on an individualized approach, from damages to medical bills and lost income. Reed Law Firm helps enhance your case and add value so you get a fair and just settlement.
Because insurance companies evaluate claims through software, we became experts in software. Our firm has thousands of hours of personal injury legal computing experience and training. We’re skilled in how insurance companies use software to evaluate your claim. This kind of proficiency in a law firm proves invaluable in ensuring you are not victimized twice and in optimizing the value of your case for a fair and just settlement.
We work to get you the best possible settlement without going to trial. An estimated 95% of our cases settle outside of court. However, if your case is one of the rare few that does go to trial, our seasoned team of personal injury experts has the skills and experience to win. One of our recent trial verdicts was $550,000 against a premier Portland defense law firm.*
Insurance companies operate in direct opposition to your interests. Their teams of skilled lawyers work tirelessly against injury victims, aiming to minimize payouts. Bonuses, promotions, and awards are reserved for insurance adjusters who inflict the most damage upon those who are already damaged.
Again, our relentless dedication insures we can settle the vast majority of personal injury cases for fair and just payment without going to trial.
Here are some examples from our personal injury cases of how insurance companies work against your interests:
1) In one of our trials, an insurance lawyer hired seven medical experts and surgeons. But they didn’t fool the jury—one by one we forced these hired-gun experts to admit they didn’t have the facts. One expert admitted he hadn’t read even one page of 20 deposition transcripts before trial. He ignored 1,500 pages of sworn testimony! Yet he still gave the jury his $6,500 “expert opinion” anyway. That’s not justice, but that’s how they work.
2) In another case, the staff at a rest home carelessly placed our client’s paralyzed wife so that she would fall out of the bed, then compounded the problem by leaving her bed’s guard rail in the down position. Worse yet, her nursing care gown was tied strongly around the neck. An alternative could have been Velcro straps. Later that night, her legs gradually slid off the bed while her gown remained hooked to the bed frame, which strangled her to death.
How did the insurance lawyers respond?
“It was probably a suicide.”
Just another example of how extreme and underhanded insurance companies are in dealing with valid injury and wrongful death claims. In our case, they ignored our client’s inability at moving her body—it was physically impossible for her to commit suicide. Not that the truth mattered. The insurance lawyers defended their interests at all costs, lying about the deceased woman, manufacturing dishonest opportunities.
You might think this “suicide” argument is unusual. Reed Law saw another insurance attorney do the same thing in a cross-walk injury case, based on nothing more than speculation. We were successful in persuading the judge to block this ridiculous attempt. Many such adjusters and attorneys are relentless in their pursuit of circumventing payment.
3) There was a driver who struck and killed our clients’ child with his car. He claimed the child “jumped out” in front of him. The only witnesses to the contrary were little children – the child’s playmates – who were all adamant that their friend was crossing the roadway safely when he was struck. The first attorney the parents hired dropped the case. He gave up on them.
Then the parents came to our office and asked for a second opinion. Reed Law collected police photos. We saw something strange in the pictures: In one photo, the interior of the car had a newspaper turned so that it could be read by the driver; later in the stack of photos, that newspaper was “gone.”
Reed Law Firm discovered through depositions it was the driver who had removed the paper when the investigating police officer investigated the other side of the car with his camera. It didn’t take much to put two and two together. The driver was reading the newspaper headlines when he struck the child.
We don’t give up so easily!
Some of the many personal injury clients we’ve helped to winning results (most without going to court!):*
• A burned smoke-jumper against the foreign chainsaw maker of his defective saw.
• Two molested children, taking all of the molester’s real estate.
• The widower of a suicide victim, changing an unjust law in the Oregon Supreme Court.
• A seven-year-old burn victim against one of the world’s largest corporations, Wal-Mart.
• A victim of severe medical neglect against a careless surgeon who said our client’s gangrene was only a bruise, then went on a vacation.
• A brain-damaged auto wreck victim against a careless trucking company.
• A firefighter’s widow against the foreign auto maker, whose failed seatbelt killed her husband.
• An aged widow against a rest home that “lost” her husband who had Alzheimer’s–the police later found him, drowned in a ditch.
• A woman whose fiancé was killed by a meth addict while he crossed in a crosswalk.
• A college student struck in a crosswalk, working to get his huge medical bills reduced since there was so little insurance.
• A non-English speaking widow whose husband was killed by a drunk driver, getting a large settlement for her to get her life back on track.
• A wife of a police officer fight against a national department store whose luggage fell onto the back of her neck, causing her to undergo a multiple-fusion surgery.
• The teen victim of a sexual assault against the business that carelessly hired/retained a sexual predator.
• A woman in a head-on wreck get her bills reduced from $410,000 down to $43,000.
• A Russian exchange student against the driver of a car who crushed her into an ATM machine.
• A teen “hero” who saved the lives of his toddler nephews in a car crash against the insurance that refused to fairly pay for his severe internal injuries.
• A highway flagger against the company that failed to ground his power generator, which gave him a 20,000-volt shock.
• A woman who had spinal injuries and lost her pregnancy after an auto wreck, winning against an insurance company that blamed the woman’s “Latino diet” for her losses.
• The victim of a head-on-collision who sustained brain damage against an insurance company that refused to pay for what their driver caused to her life.
• An ex-Air Force pilot whose femur was forced out of his hip and through his back upon impact with a semi-truck.
• A mechanic whose arm fractured when a faulty product blew up in his hand.
• A wolf sanctuary defeat a bully landowner neighbor who lived a half-mile away.
• A motorcyclist who had his arm torn off by a van that veered into his lane on a blind curve.
• Thousands of injury victims–in Oregon and California–get fair and just payment for their injuries.
If you’ve been hurt, Reed Law Firm is here to help. We work to get accident victims fair recovery for what they’ve been through. That’s our focus, purpose, and our avocation. We can do the same for you.
Call the Medford Personal Injury Lawyer now at (541)772-3266 for a FREE First Consultation. Tell us the facts of your accident, and we can discuss to best ways to maximize your recovery, and make you whole, so that you’re not a victim twice.