North Dakota Injuries

A Dickinson worker burned by steam while closing up cannot be forced onto a personal health plan instead of North Dakota workers' comp, and a health insurer usually does not get to swallow an entire recovery.

A buried worker can have a serious injury claim even when the contractor's commercial policy suddenly starts playing games about trench-collapse coverage.

If you were a passenger hurt in a West Fargo crash and the uninsured driver caused a fire, the money usually comes from the car you were in, any other insured driver involved, and uninsured motorist coverage - and SSDI usually is not the benefit that gets knocked out by a settlement.

An EMT in Grand Forks can have a claim against a restaurant for a known spill and possibly a separate claim against the city if a city-owned truck caused the mess.

A Fargo ranch hand got hurt by livestock, the doctor wants surgery, and North Dakota workers' comp is trying to stop at the expensive part.

A Dickinson delivery driver with a bad neck injury, VA benefits, and a lying adjuster has more time to sue than he thinks, but some deadlines hit long before the statute runs out.

A Minot retiree with MRI evidence can still get buried by an IME report, and the biggest damage often comes from a few avoidable mistakes.

A rear-end crash with a City of Fargo truck can turn an SI joint injury claim into a deadline problem fast, especially if you do seasonal ag work and can't afford to miss steps.

A badly broken femur after a Fargo head-on crash can be worth serious money, but one minor violation can slash the payout if shared fault sticks.

A late-filed dog bite claim in Mandan is not always dead, but the real deadline is usually the lawsuit deadline, and a dog with a known bite history changes the whole fight.

A missed government notice deadline in North Dakota can wreck one claim, but a scaffolding fall with no fall protection may still leave other targets and other deadlines.

The First Report of Injury (SFN 2828) should be filed with North Dakota Workforce Safety & Insurance (WSI) right away. The employer is supposed to report a work injury within 7...

For 2025, North Dakota Workforce Safety & Insurance (WSI) updated employer rates and classifications again, but the big rule did not change: if your business is properly...

The police report might say you fell at a Dickinson church and "it was just an accident." That is not what decides your claim. The most common bad advice is: "Use your own...

Think about dropping a coffee mug on a tile floor: the key question is where it first hits, because that spot helps explain the break pattern and what happened next. In a...

Miss this detail after a crash, and a bad guess can harden into the official story: who crossed the centerline, where impact happened, or whether a driver tried to avoid the...

Insurance companies and defense lawyers often use allegations of reckless driving to argue that an injured person caused their own crash, failed to use reasonable care, or...

A few seconds here can change who pays for a crash. If an insurer, accident reconstruction expert, or jury decides a driver had enough time to see a hazard and respond, that...

Submit a North Dakota Crash Report within 10 days if the wreck caused injury, death, or at least $4,000 in damage and no officer investigated it at the scene. Picture a summer...

Insurance adjusters and defense lawyers love to wave this one around like it proves a crash victim lost control and caused the wreck. If they can point to curved tire marks on...