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The adjuster says take the check, the surgeon says wait, and that tiny traffic ticket could swing everything

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.

ARTICLE by Ahmed Ali

following too closely

Like walking so close behind someone in a grocery store that they stop and you slam into their cart, driving too near the vehicle ahead leaves no room to react. Legally and for...

Coworker says a West Fargo trench collapse is always insured - true?

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

ARTICLE by Linda Spotted Bear

A method of accident reconstruction, crush analysis measures permanent vehicle deformation after a collision and uses that damage to estimate impact severity, collision forces,...

What to Do After a Head-On I-94 Collision

What actually matters in the first days after a North Dakota head-on crash when the other vehicle drifts into your lane on a highway like I-94.

ARTICLE by Mike Renner

Event Data Recorder

Like the memory chip in your phone after you drop it, the insurance company does not want you to know your vehicle may have stored a split-second record of what really happened...

my lower back is wrecked after a Fargo city truck rear-ended me on I-94 and now they're saying the claim works differently

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.

ARTICLE by Sarah Lindstrom

Insurance companies and defense lawyers may talk about a crash "map" as if it settles everything: one clean diagram, one story, case closed. They often lean on that kind of...

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...

point of impact

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...

Grand Forks city truck hit the restaurant and i slipped in the mess

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.

ARTICLE by Ahmed Ali

perception-reaction time

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...

leaving the scene of an accident

People often confuse leaving the scene of an accident with reckless driving, but they are different offenses. Reckless driving is about how a person drives before a crash or...

That "small policy" story can cost you your whole neck claim

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.

ARTICLE by Travis Haugen

reckless driving

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...

I was delivering near Dickinson and no cops came did I just lose everything?

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...

You might see this phrase in a crash report, an insurance letter, or a reconstruction expert's notes: "the area of impact was in the northbound lane" or "damage patterns are...

coefficient of friction

Money gets won or lost on this number because it can change a crash from "you were driving too fast" to "the road had almost no grip." In a claim, lawyers, insurers, and...

Information automatically recorded by a vehicle or machine's onboard electronic systems before, during, and after an incident, often including speed, brake use, throttle...

Bismarck jobsite fall on government property? That missed notice deadline may not end it

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.

ARTICLE by Sarah Lindstrom