North Dakota Injuries

What the insurance company does not want you to know is that a hit-and-run without a plate number can still be a valid uninsured-motorist claim in North Dakota. If the driver...

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

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...

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.

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...

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 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.

What does it mean if you were cited for not stopping for an emergency vehicle? It usually means a driver did not promptly pull over, slow down, or otherwise give the...

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...

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.

North Dakota car crash settlements often land around $15,000 to $40,000 for moderate injury cases, but the worst-case answer is yes - waiting to involve your own insurer can...

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 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.

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...

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...

Like a receipt nobody wants, a speeding ticket is written proof that an officer believes a driver was going faster than the posted limit or too fast for conditions. Legally, it...

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...

Like a report card that never forgets, this is the official paper trail of what a driver has done behind the wheel. A motor vehicle record is the government-maintained history...

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.