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A swimming pool accident can occur in seconds, and the aftermath, whether a near-drowning, a serious injury, or a fatality, can be life-altering for everyone involved. The physical harm ranges from minor injuries to brain damage caused by oxygen deprivation and wrongful death. The legal questions that follow center on who was responsible for maintaining […]

A car accident can turn your life upside down in seconds. Medical bills, missed work, vehicle damage, and insurance calls all come flooding in at once. In the middle of all that stress, it is easy to make decisions that feel right in the moment but end up hurting your case later. Our friends at […]

Losing a family member because of someone else’s negligence is a devastating experience. Grief alone is overwhelming. Adding legal decisions on top of that grief, often under time pressure, makes an already impossible situation even harder. Understanding how wrongful death claims actually work does not make the loss easier, but it does give surviving family […]

Getting hit by a car as a pedestrian is traumatic. And then, on top of everything else, you find out the insurance company is arguing that you share some of the blame. It happens constantly in pedestrian accident cases. Understanding how Oklahoma’s comparative fault rules actually work, and how insurers use them, is one of […]

When a driver strikes a pedestrian, the immediate question is usually whether the driver was at fault. But fault doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It gets evaluated against a specific legal standard, and in Oklahoma, drivers carry clearly defined duties toward pedestrians that go beyond just “be careful.” Understanding what those duties actually are, and […]

When a child gets hurt because of someone else’s negligence, the instinct is to focus entirely on the child’s recovery. That’s the right priority. But the legal process that runs alongside that recovery has rules, deadlines, and requirements that most parents don’t know about, and overlooking them can have lasting financial consequences for the child. […]

Every state has its own rules for how motorcycles can legally operate on public roads. Oklahoma is no exception. And when a crash happens, those rules become relevant in a hurry. Whether you followed them, whether the other driver did, and how any violations factor into fault can all directly affect what your claim is […]

Being in a crosswalk feels like it should mean you’re safe. Legally protected. And in many ways, Oklahoma law does protect pedestrians crossing at designated locations. But being in a crosswalk doesn’t automatically make the driver 100% at fault if something goes wrong, and it doesn’t guarantee a straightforward path to compensation. How crosswalk laws […]

Most people assume that getting hit by a car as a pedestrian works the same way as any other auto accident claim. In some ways it does. But Oklahoma’s fault-based insurance system creates specific considerations for pedestrians, and if you were struck by a vehicle in Claremore, understanding how coverage actually applies to your situation […]

Most people who’ve been hurt in an accident want to know one thing right away: whose fault is it? In Oklahoma personal injury law, that question gets answered through a legal concept called negligence. It sounds technical, but it’s really just a structured way of asking whether someone acted carelessly and whether that carelessness hurt […]