The common causes of motorcycle accidents in Oklahoma City are not exotic. They are ordinary driving errors that a car absorbs and a motorcycle does not. A driver misjudging a gap at a light on the Broadway Extension produces a fender bender between two sedans. The same misjudgment against a rider produces a hospital admission. […]
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Asking what a personal injury case is worth is reasonable, and the honest answer early on is that nobody knows yet. Value in Oklahoma gets built from documents that do not exist in the first weeks, then reduced by claims other parties hold against the same money. Two things separate the gross number from the
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Oklahoma’s dog bite liability laws take a harder line on owners than most people expect. Title 4, Section 42.1 makes an owner responsible for damages without any showing that the dog had a history. The owner’s usual response, that the dog had never done this before, carries no weight under the statute. What matters is
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Understanding how insurance companies minimize your injury claim matters less than knowing what Oklahoma law actually lets you do about it. Many articles on this subject promise leverage that does not exist in this state. Oklahoma draws a hard line between what an insurer owes its own policyholder and what it owes everyone else.
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Wrongful death claims in Oklahoma run through a statute that surprises most families the first time they read it. Title 12, Section 1053 does not simply let relatives sue. It routes the case through the estate and then divides the recovery by category, naming exactly who receives each piece. A surviving spouse, the children,
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Oklahoma’s modified comparative negligence rule turns injury claims into arithmetic. Title 23, Sections 13 and 14 of the Oklahoma Statutes reduce an award in proportion to the injured person’s own negligence, then cut it off completely at a specific threshold. One percentage point decides whether a claim is worth half its value or nothing at
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Dangerous property conditions in Oklahoma City rarely announce themselves. A puddle near a drink station, a lot that pooled and refroze overnight, a stair tread worn smooth by twenty years of traffic. None of it looks like a legal problem until someone hits the ground. Oklahoma law asks a narrower question than most people
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Semi-truck accident injuries follow a different pattern than injuries from ordinary collisions, and the reason has less to do with speed than with mass. When a vehicle weighing tens of thousands of pounds strikes one weighing two tons, almost none of that energy is absorbed by the truck. Oklahoma sits at the crossing of
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How long you have to file a personal injury claim in Oklahoma depends on who you are suing and what kind of harm occurred. The common answer is two years, and for most car crash and premises cases that answer holds. The trouble starts with the exceptions. A claim against a public transit agency,
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Knowing what to do after a car accident in Oklahoma City is less about memorizing a list and more about getting the order right. The decisions that shape a claim happen fast: whether police come out, whether you see a doctor that night, whether you answer an adjuster’s questions before you understand your own injuries.
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