This is the second post in my weekly blog series: Personal Injury Claim Value: Key Variables. This second post addresses injury value key variable #2: The Injury. a. Understandable Injury Decision makers, especially jurors, find difficulty compensating for invisible and hard to understand injuries. A broken bone may yield greater recovery than more serious soft…
This is the first post in my weekly blog series: Personal Injury Claim Value: Key Variables. During the past 25 years I have quantified claims big and small – as a large loss claims analyst (1996-2000), an insurance defense attorney (1990-1996) and since 2000 as a plaintiff personal injury attorney. I dedicate the series to…
Lately, the city of Portland has faced troubling statistics involving traffic reports. We are ranked as the 9th city with the worst congestion in the US, have some of the worst drivers, and for the past two years our fatal accident rate has escalated. 2015 saw a sharp uptick in traffic fatalities, with 37 traffic…
Rizklaw welcomes Alex Pletch as our 2015 summer law clerk! Alex is the third Rizklaw team member educated at Lewis & Clark Law School. Alex resumes school in the fall and will be providing support for summer trials.
FIRE and bellowing plumes of SMOKE make this summer particularly dangerous for motorists in Oregon and Washington State. Recognizing this danger, the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) has recently closed several stretches of highway including: Highway 26 ( at and around Warms Springs) ; and 1-84 ( Pendleton to Ontario) Highway 26 and I-84 are…
According to a KGW report, over 1,800 are sleeping on Portland streets as of today and that number continues to climb. Some estimates by the city government put that number as high as 4,000! The onset of summer attracts additional drifters from other areas who travel according to the warmer weather. Individuals, families, seniors, and people with…
Sunday May 10 was a wonderful day for an outing. With bikes atop, Jill my wife and I travelled to Silverton to visit a friend who lives in Silverton. Then it happened. An elderly lady, eyes wide, drove her vehicle the wrong way and was heading directly toward the vehicle in which Jill and were passengers. Thanks…
Dear Richard, You’ve received a client review on your Avvo profile. Overall Rating: 5 Stars Review: I would like to take this opportunity to thank Attorney Richard Rizk and paralegal Don Nash for their tremendous work on a complex and challenging array of cases. I initially met Richard in the summer of 2011 after I had been involved in…
One car becomes two pieces. Another catches fire and rolls in ditch. The suspect, a driver of a third vehicle reportedly bites an arresting police officer. Police dog bites the suspect after feeling scene. Suspect is charged with Driving under the influence, assault, failure to perform duties of a driver in an injury crash, reckless…
Bob Simon died yesterday in tragic car accident. He was a “reporter’s reporter” recalled CBS anchor Scott Pelley this morning. Time and time again, Mr. Simon would search for the true news, with little regard for his own safety. Bob Simon has earned many awards for his insightful and courageous journalism. He is known for…