From the moment we opened our doors, Smith Freed Eberhard has been fearlessly pushing the edge of what’s possible for our clients. We’ve carefully cultivated and developed specialties in our practices and our people to give you the very best: formidable expertise, strategically creative thinking, and litigation guideline adherence. We are your champion, keenly focused on understanding your situation, solving your challenges, and achieving your goals.
Our Personal Lines defense team is highly skilled in defending all types of personal lines claims. This includes; Minor Impact / Bodily Injury / Fractures and Broken Bones / Neck and Back Injuries / Spinal Cord Injuries / Sexual Abuse / Traumatic Brain Injuries / Wrongful Death / Bad Faith / Premises Liability, Slip, Trip, and Fall Accidents / High Net Worth Insureds / Host Liquor Liability / ORS 20.080.
SFE has defended thousands of automotive defense / bodily injury cases throughout Oregon and Washington. Our experience in representing insureds as policyholders, ride-sharing services, taxi’s, and self-driving autos — allows our attorneys to gain critical experience on a wide range of automotive defense scenarios, which helps us to understand different themes brought by plaintiff’s counsel and their unique challenges.
Often the desired course of action to resolve conflict, particularly in complex, time sensitive, expensive, catastrophic injury cases, is the best course of action. With that in mind, our personal lines defense team is committed to resolving even the most hotly contested disputes outside of court and with less delay and expense than in the traditional litigation process. The firm’s lawyers are involved in the arbitration and mediation of injury disputes of all kinds, which can result in significant cost and time savings for our clients.
Personal lines defense matters cannot be solved with a one size fits all approach. Our goal is to analyze and mitigate risk, whether our attorneys are negotiating a settlement or actively litigating a case. Early evaluation and discovery is critical. Our team seeks to identify legal defenses theories at the earliest point possible and effective settlement opportunities.
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