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If you’ve been hurt in an accident in Hermiston or anywhere in Umatilla County, Hess Injury Law is the local firm to call. Our Hermiston office is at 1025 N. 1st Street, and we’ve been representing injured people throughout Eastern Oregon for years.
Personal injury and wrongful death cases involving vehicle accidents are all our firm does. We’ve recovered millions for clients hurt by negligent drivers, trucking companies, and other parties. The consultation is free, and you don’t pay anything unless we recover compensation for you.
Contact our office or call (509) 385-0781 to talk to a Hermiston attorney today.
When you’re choosing a personal injury lawyer in Hermiston, three things matter most: who’s actually going to handle your case, how much experience they have with cases like yours, and whether they know the area well enough to represent you effectively.
What we offer Hermiston clients:
Hermiston sits at one of the busiest commercial freight crossroads in the Pacific Northwest. Three major routes converge near the city:
Highway 730, Highway 207, and Feedville Road also feed into the area, and the combination produces serious crashes regularly. A few recent examples:
These aren’t isolated events. The combination of grade, weather, freight traffic, and rural conditions makes the corridor around Hermiston a place where serious crashes happen on a regular basis.
A few hazards specific to this region:
When an out-of-state insurance adjuster handles a claim from this area, they often don’t understand these conditions or how they affect liability. That gap is something local representation closes.
Our Hermiston office handles personal injury and wrongful death cases involving:
Rear-end collisions, intersection crashes, head-on collisions, and multi-vehicle pile-ups on I-84, I-82, Highway 395, Highway 730, and the local streets of Hermiston. Learn more about our Hermiston car accident practice.
Crashes involving semi-trucks, delivery vehicles, and other commercial vehicles. Truck cases are different from regular car accidents — they involve federal regulations, electronic logging device data, and trucking company liability. Learn more about our Hermiston truck accident practice.
Riders are particularly vulnerable on Eastern Oregon’s roads, and insurance companies often try to assign more fault to the motorcyclist than is fair. We push back. Learn more about our motorcycle accident practice.
When a vehicle accident takes a family member, we represent surviving spouses, children, and parents in wrongful death claims. Learn more about our Hermiston wrongful death practice.
We also handle pedestrian and bicycle accidents, bus accidents, boat accidents, and cases involving defective vehicles and components.
The closest emergency department to Hermiston is Good Shepherd Medical Center on Highland Avenue. For more serious trauma, patients are often transferred to Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland or Providence St. Mary in Walla Walla.
For minor injuries, urgent care options in Hermiston are typically the fastest path to documented care. Even when injuries seem minor in the immediate aftermath of a crash, getting evaluated — and creating a medical record from the day of the accident — matters significantly for any claim.
We’ve covered medical bills and how they get paid in detail in our guide on how medical bills are paid after a car accident, as well as the medical liens that come out of any settlement.
Personal injury cases that don’t settle and require litigation in Umatilla County are filed in the 6th Judicial District. The Hermiston Court at 915 SE Columbia Drive is one of three district courthouses, along with Pendleton and Heppner. We know the local courts, the local insurance defense bar, and how cases move through this district.
Depending on the specifics of your case, recoverable losses in a Hermiston accident claim may include:
Economic damages:
Non-economic damages:
Wrongful death damages when a family member is killed — including loss of financial support, loss of companionship, and the deceased’s pre-death pain and suffering.
Two factors come up in almost every Hermiston case worth understanding:
Insurance coverage. Many drivers in this region carry minimum policy limits, and serious injuries can quickly exceed what’s available. Your own uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage is often the most important source of compensation, and a lot of clients don’t realize they have it or how to access it.
Insurance adjuster tactics. Adjusters handling claims from this area often assume injured people don’t have access to experienced legal representation and offer significantly lower settlements as a result. Our guide on how to scare an insurance adjuster walks through the playbook and how to push back.
For a realistic read on what cases tend to settle for, see our breakdown of personal injury settlement amounts and examples and how much is my personal injury case worth.
A Hermiston worker hurt on the job — particularly in a vehicle accident while driving for work, on a construction site, or in connection with another party’s negligence — typically has both a workers’ compensation claim through their employer AND a third-party personal injury claim. The two claims coexist, and pursuing the third-party claim doesn’t cost you your workers’ comp benefits. We cover this in detail in our guide on getting a settlement after being hurt at work.
When you call our office, here’s how it works:
You focus on getting better. We handle the rest.
If you’ve been hurt in an accident in Hermiston or anywhere in Umatilla County — on I-84, I-82, Highway 395, Highway 730, or any local road — our team is ready to help. The consultation is free, and you don’t pay anything unless we recover compensation for you.
Visit our Hermiston office at 1025 N. 1st Street, or contact us online.
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We also represent accident victims in Pendleton, Umatilla, Boardman, Milton-Freewater, La Grande, The Dalles, and throughout Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington.