The Injury Board Vancouver Archives

• Insurance medical exam

  Don Jacobs | August 30, 2008 10:26 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Someone isn’t paying attention while driving. Maybe they’re on the cell phone, texting or looking at emails. Maybe they’re late and can’t find an address, frantically looking around for a...

• Evaluating an injury case

  Don Jacobs | August 22, 2008 12:06 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  When someone harms another human in our country they become legally responsible for the injury they cause. This is true whether the injury was the result of an intentional act, like an assault, or...

• Settle or sue?

  Don Jacobs | August 20, 2008 6:25 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  An August 8, 2008 article in the New York Times discussed an interesting study concerning whether or not consumers are better of taking their case to court if they don’t like the settlement figures....

• Changing attorneys

  Don Jacobs | August 15, 2008 8:17 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Recently I received a call from a consumer injured in an auto collision. I listened to their story and learned they were a pedestrian in a crosswalk crossing on a green signal when a car decided to...

• Allstate insurance tactics revealed in new book

  Don Jacobs | August 13, 2008 7:59 PM | 2 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Allstate has generally become known as the worst insurer in America due to its “deny, delay, and defend” method of handling claims. A new book describes the tactics used by the company that allowed...

• Recreational injury – who is responsible?

  Don Jacobs | August 09, 2008 12:30 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)

  Summer is upon us in the great northwest and people are taking to the outdoors. State parks, federal lands and large private landholders such as timber companies see lots of visitors using their...

• Delay, deny and defend

  Don Jacobs | August 07, 2008 1:22 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  The above phrase has been adopted as a tactic by many of the major U.S. insurance companies since the 1990s. And why not? Profits are at an all time high. Some insurance companies are reporting...

• Whose insurance should pay?

  Don Jacobs | August 05, 2008 1:22 PM | 1 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  People hurt in accidents caused by another driver are often reluctant to use their own insurance. After all, they reason, the other driver caused the collision, why should my insurance pay? They...