Auto/Trucking Accidents
Accidents cause physical injury and pain. They disrupt your life and your family's life. Additionally, you are confronted with medical bills, lost wages, and damages to your car if you were in an auto accident. Insurance companies send you paperwork to complete and take recorded statements from you. The insurance adjuster wants you to sign papers requiring your doctors to reveal your private health information to the insurance adjuster. The adjuster may tell you that you will only get paid for your damages if you settle your case now.

Are you prepared to protect your own interests? After all, the insurance company has hired an adjuster who specializes in settling cases to represent its interests. Who is representing your interests? Do you know how to maximize the value of your claim? Do you feel ready to put your experience against a professional hired by the insurance company? Does the insurance adjuster want to pay the maximum dollar value to you for your case, or is he/she attempting to save the insurance company as much money as possible by being "nice" to you on the phone so you will feel like you are getting a fair deal? Would you know what a fair deal is for the particular facts of your case?

Many factors determine your case value. Obviously, the extent of your injuries is the critcial factor. What you may not know is that the amount of your medical bills is not the determining factor of how seriously you were injured. Was the defendant a drunk driver? Does the trucking company have a history of running over weight and beyond the legally permissable hours for its drivers? Some facts are easy to learn. However, your lawyer can usually uncover the hidden facts and present that information so it benefits you the most.

If the result in your case can't likely be improved by having a lawyer represent you, a good lawyer would let you know that after your free consultation. Remember, if your case is handled on a contigency, your lawyer is paid a percentage of the amount that you recover. A good lawyer would not encourage you to hire him/her that won't be advantageous to both of you.

The BOWERSOX LAW FIRM represents people who get injured in auto, truck, motorcycle, boating, or other accidents. We handle all the insurance paperwork so that you can avoid the extra stress and aggravation. We advise you regarding your rights and we protect your rights. After all, if you didn't cause the accident, shouldn't someone protect your rights?

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Brain Injury
Brain injuries change the life of the injured person and their loved ones. The frustration felt from not being able to perform tasks the injured person once easily handled can be overwhelming. Catastrophic brain injuries can leave the injured person completely unable to provide for himself or herself.

Often the responsibility to care for the injured person falls upon a spouse, parent or other relative. The stress of providing daily care to their injured loved one is added to the pressure of all other responsibilities carried by the care giver.

The Bowersox Law Firm can assist in this challenging situation with referrals to support groups, care providers and planners. Moreover, the Bowersox Law Firm will carefully and agressively seek full compensation from the insurance company of the person or business that is responsible for causing the injury to your loved one. The law provides for compensation to pay for medical bills and life care (including attendants when required) as well as monetary compensation for the pain, suffering and loss of quality of life suffered by the injured person.

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Business Disputes
The BOWERSOX LAW FIRM represents shareholders and partners in businesses that are in dispute with each other. This includes franchisees that are in disputes with their franchisor.

For example, Mr. Bowersox represented 26 UNOCAL dealers against UNOCAL (Union Oil Company of California) in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. The case was fought all the way to the United States Supreme Court, which turned down UNOCAL's appeal. Mr. Bowersox's clients received payment from UNOCAL for over $4,000,000.00.

Civil Litigation
The term "litigation" means filing a lawsuit and getting ready for a trial, including going to a jury trial, if necessary, to protect your rights. A good lawyer has a reputation for being ready, willing, and able to take your case to trial and win. "Negotiation" means trying to settle your case before you go to trial. A good lawyer is willing to use both litigation and negotiation to help you. Litigation and negotiation are a lawyer's tools to make the person or company that injured you responsible for its actions and make them pay for your damages. Be careful if the lawyer handling your case does not have experience in both "litigating" and "negotiating" cases.

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Employment and Discrimination
The BOWERSOX LAW FIRM represents people in cases of serious abuse or discrimination such as sexual harrassment, ADA (Americans with Disabilities) claims, and racial and gender discrimination. The BOWERSOX LAW FIRM represents clients by enforcing the laws established by the Oregon legislature and by the United States Congress for the purpose of protecting our basic rights to be free from abusive treatment and discrimination.

Insurance
The BOWERSOX LAW FIRM handles cases against insurance companies when they fail on promises made to you. From auto, truck, motorcycle, or boating accidents to fire insurance cases, the BOWERSOX LAW FIRM will handle your insurance paperwork while you concentrate on your health and returning to work.

Personal Injury & Torts
Representing injured people in all types of claims, including auto and truck accidents, victims of drunk drivers, work injuries, boating accidents, and death cases resulting from accidents of any kind or from medical malpractice.

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Products Liability
Defective products can be deceiving. Often, people are injured or killed by defective products without anyone knowing the true cause of their injury. State and Federal Law, as well as industry standards, often require products to be safely designed. However, some companies ignore or fail to follow these standards. If you have been injured by a product, the BOWERSOX LAW FIRM will help you find out if the product was defective and caused your injury.

Professional Liability & Malpractice
Lawyers, doctors, accountants, engineers and other professionals make mistakes. If their mistake causes you injury or causes you to lose money, they can be required by law to pay for your injury or reimburse you for the money you lost.

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Workers' Compensation
If you are injured on the job, you can file for workers compensation benefits. Sometimes you have the right to sue someone who caused the accident, as well as having the right to workers compensation benefits. For example, a traveling salesperson who is involved in an auto collision while on the job can sue the person who caused the collision and still get workers compensation benefits. A person who gets hurt on the job by a defective product or machine can sue for the injury caused by the defective machine and also get workers compensation benefits.

Wrongful Death Cases
The law describes a case in which someone is accidentally killed a "wrongful death" case. The law recognizes and emphasizes that the family of a person who has been killed by a car or plane crash, a defective product, or medical malpractice has suffered a terrible loss. There are, of course, other causes of wrongful death, and the law protects the families of those victims as well.

For the spouse and children, the family has suffered not only a horrible personal loss, but is also faced with the loss of financial and emotional support from the person who was killed.

Parents of a wrongfully killed child may not have expected financial assistance from their child, but they are still grieving the loss of the society and companionship.

The lawyers at the BOWERSOX LAW FIRM understand the emotional and financial strain suffered by the family of a wrongful death victim. We are experienced in representing families in this circumstance and can provide application assistance for government benefits and workers compensation benefits. In addition, we can pursue the family's claims against the person or company responsible for the wrongful death.

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