EUGENE PERSONAL INJURY ATTORNEYS 97401

Veralrud & Fowler handles a variety of cases generally included under the “personal injury” or “accident” area of legal practice. Even relatively commonplace injuries (automobile accidents, slip-and-fall accidents, professional malpractice–either legal or medical) can often have devastating consequences for the injured party and family members. We have access to excellent medical experts, accident reconstruction experts, rehabilitative experts and vocational experts to assist us in maximizing the amount of compensation and restitution that we can bring to our clients when we represent them on an injury case.

Insurance companies can be frustrating and even bewildering to deal with. An injured claimant trying to represent him or herself with an insurance company has an experienced and formidable adversary across the table. Insurance companies highly train their personnel toward one goal: to minimize the amount of money the company has to pay out on any given claim. You need your own professional expert to make sure you “maximize” the compensation available. Veralrud & Fowler provides just that expertise.

Mr. Veralrud generally oversees all of the injury and wrongful death cases in the firm.  We also handle certain on-the-job injury cases involving negligence on the part of a third party other than the employer.

We’ve handled and generated large verdicts and settlements in the area of government misconduct and civil rights (excessive force and abuse in police and other law enforcement cases, failure to provide protective services, abuse at the hands of child services protective agencies, and abuse by caretakers and others in the position of authority such as church workers, child care providers, children youth activity leaders, etc.). The firm has also generated substantial settlements in airplane accidents and legal / medical malpractice matters.

Legal costs in personal injury cases:

Generally, if we feel that a case has value, we will take the case on what is called a “contingent fee basis.” The terms means just that: our collection of an attorney fee is “contingent” on us securing a financial settlement in your case. If you don’t recover, we don’t take an attorney fee. Generally speaking, Oregon law permits us to take these contingent fee cases and allows us to “front” the legal costs of bringing the case so that the clients, in most cases, is not required to pay money out of pocket until they actually have the claim resolved. These costs are paid out to third parties for expert witness reports and testimony, court filing fees, service fees, deposition costs and other expenses generally incurred in the course of litigating a lawsuit.

We discuss fees and costs thoroughly with our clients before any retainer agreement is reached. We are happy to spend the time that the client needs to make sure they have a complete understanding of what will occur.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly to the potential client looking for competent, expert legal advice, Veralrud & Fowler offers free consultations on all personal injury matters. In short, we invite you to contact us if you have an injury that you feel needs representation, knowing that you can spend some time and not be responsible for legal costs.

We want you to get to know us before you make any hiring decision or incur any legal costs. We are more than happy to discuss your case with you.