In this post:  First settlement offers aim to resolve claims before the full cost of a crash becomes clear. Motorcycle and truck cases often involve bias, rushed fault allocation, and injuries that evolve over time. Waiting, gathering evidence, and evaluating long-term impact creates leverage and protects recovery. Insurance companies do not make early settlement offers to be generous. They make them to close claims Read More

Another injury topic very pertinent to motorcycle riders is pelvic injuries. The pelvis is the strongest and most protected structure in the body. It takes a lot of energy to damage the pelvis, and many times, pelvic injury is accompanied by a lot of other injuries. There is one doctor in town that testifies that a pelvic injury is, by definition, also a spine injury. I don’t fully agree, but appreciate the Read More

May not be popular to say, but speed is a factor in a lot of motorcycle-related accidents. Fortunately, Nevada is a “comparative negligence” State, our version of that law says you can still recover for your injuries so long as your fault is “not greater than” the fault of the other party. So you can recover so long as you are not more than 50% at fault for an accident. The degree of your fault is for a jury to Read More

As riders, we are uniquely susceptible to certain injuries in accidents that people in cars are not. Lower extremity (thigh, knee, calf, ankle and foot) are some of the most common injuries riders suffer. In America, we receive more injuries on our left lower limbs, because we drive on the right hand side of the road and therefore, cars are more likely to hit us on our left side. In countries that drive on the left Read More