Personal Injury

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 […]

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,