InjuryBoard Oklahoma City Archives

• Dog Bite Case(2)

  Jeremy Thurman | November 19, 2007 4:23 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)

  Dog Bite cases are becoming more and more common in our practice. People often do not understand that if your bitten by a dog, you have a legal recourse. People carry home owners insurance for these specific types of incidents. Don't let insurance companies get away with paying nothing for your injuries.

• DIrect Action Against Insurer of Motor Carrier

  Jeremy Thurman | November 16, 2007 3:10 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  One of the key aspects in valuating a trucking accident versus a standard automobile accident in Oklahoma is the fact that teh insurer of the trucking company can be named in the lawsuit. This is important on several fronts, if your unaware Oklahoma does not have a direct action statute that allows one in a normal car accident to directly sue the insurance company. Instead you sue the named...

• National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel's Pressure Ulcer Staging System

  Jacob Diesselhorst | November 15, 2007 4:58 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

  National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel's Updated Pressure Ulcer Staging SystemAbstractThe National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel has updated the definition of a pressure ulcer and the stages of pressure ulcers based on current research and expert opinion solicited from hundreds of clinicians, educators, and researchers across the country. The amount of anatomical tissue loss described with each...

• LTC reform bill introduced in House

  Jacob Diesselhorst | November 12, 2007 4:05 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

  See the following excerpt from a recent article on the quality of care in our country's nursing homes: LTC reform bill introduced in House The level of discourse about improving the quality of long-term care rose to a new level Tuesday, when three members of the U.S. House introduced the Long Term Care Quality & Modernization Act of 2007 (H.R. 4082). Although there are no illusions in the...

• Who is legally entitled to recover under an uninsured motorist policy?(2)

  Jeremy Thurman | November 12, 2007 11:44 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Several cases in Oklahoma have addressed the issue of exactly who can recover damages under an uninsured motorist policy. Often, claimants may be made to believe that various stipulations bar their recovery for damages under a UM policy. For instance, an insured may recover UM benefits even though the statute of limitations has run on his claim against the tortfeasor. Under Oklahoma law, the...

• Is The Truth That Hard To See

  Jeremy Thurman | November 12, 2007 9:18 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  As I was perusing the internet this weekend I ventured over and read a couple of blogs from local personality types along with various local news organizations. A couple of these blogs were from right wing pundits in our local media and couples were from left-wing pundits. In reading the right wing local pundits I saw where the blogger was lauding an Oklahoman State Senator for her ethics...