With high gas prices its not surprising that motorcycle deaths have risen more than 6 percent, so says a just released report from the Highway Traffic and Safety Administration. The data just released shows that 2007 was the 10th straight year of increase for motorcycle death with 5, 154 bin 2007 alone.

On every motorcycle case in Oregon and Washington settlements do vary and the cases become complicated and often require expert involvement dealing with visibility, driver expertise, pip exhaustion or lack of pip medical coverage on the bike in question

Anytime a death occurs or a boater/passenger is injured an injury into legal causation should be undertaken promptly especially after a boating death. Since 1990 we have seen a statewide low of 7 boater deaths and it rose to 25 in 1993.

This year (2008) we have seen only 13 boater deaths which is about average. Boating injuries especially with the popular rafting sport can include facial lacerations and severe facial trauma such as orbital blowouts.

With as many rafting rivers as Oregon has boater deaths will occur in the future and my best advise is to have a lawyer exam the facts of the occurrence and evaluate the law even if a waiver was signed by the person who went rafting and boating.

Summer camps and children go together but injuries do happen and while in most cases they are not actionable. Except in cases involving negligence and more so particularly when the camp directors and teachers have received prior notice of a substandard condition and fail to correct the conditions before a child is hurt.

Its important to form a legal perspective to compare the camps records and in particular whether the camp was cited by county health officials and also the state on past infractions. With any investigation into camp injury negligence a good comparison should be made with past infractions and citations to the at bar situation involving the camp attendee.