Nix Law Group releases Oklahoma Injury Lawyers iPhone App

Posted by Andy Campbell on September 01, 2011

Nix Law Group has announced the release of their new iPhone application, the first and only of its kind in Oklahoma.  The app contains information about our firm and our areas of practice, including wrongful death, motor vehicle accidents, trucking accidents, medical malpractice, birth injuries, nursing home neglect, brain and spinal cord injuries, work injuries and products liability.

The Oklahoma Injury Lawyers App also contains a convenient “Crash Kit” which includes all the features needed to gather the necessary information needed for insurance claims and possible legal action arising from an accident. Get free legal advice, find out more about our law firm and have free and easy contact with the Nix Law Group with just a simple click through the Oklahoma Accident Lawyers App.

“We are the first and only Oklahoma law firm to provide a free iPhone application to Oklahoma consumers to have available in the unfortunate event they are in a motor vehicle accident. This App lets you know what to do and capture all the information you need at the scene of the crash. This helps facilitate insurance claims and injury lawsuits. Every Oklahoma driver needs this Free App on their iPhone and on their teenage kids’ iPhones as well,” said attorney Glendell Nix.

Features include:
- Free Information on Accident Cases
- Free Accident Crash Kit, which includes a notepad, camera, voice recorder and other features
- Free Phone Consultations
- Free Case Inquiry Submissions, including directly from the Crash Kit.
- Easy Website Access
- Office Location Listings With Satellite Map Integration
- Contact our car accident lawyers to discuss your legal rights and options

To download our App, click on this link to the Apple iTunes Store.  The app is also available for iPads and iPod Touch.


Contact Us Today - It's Always a Free Consultation! Or visit our website at www.oklahomainjurylaw.com or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/nixlawgroup


Arbitrary Damage Caps Reward Negligent and Wrongful Actors and Punish the Innocent Citizens of Oklahoma

Posted by Jacob Diesselhorst on February 17, 2011

In 2009 (less than 2 years ago), Oklahoma passed what the then-newly-annointed Republican Majority Senate and House Leadership coined "Landmark Comprehensive Lawsuit Reform." 

Per the Oklahoma GOP's own Press Release of May 11, 2009--

 The agreement is multi-faceted, including several key components of reform which will improve health care access to all Oklahomans, as well as assuring small business’ health and viability in the state.

“I’m very pleased with the agreement,” said Glen Coffee (the then Republican Senate Majority Leader and now, somehow, Secretary of State (We will save that for another day).  In May 2009, Coffee proclaimed  “Republicans have promised reform of the legal system, the people expect us to deliver, and we have in fact delivered.  The spirit of cooperation exhibited by all parties in this negotiation was gratifying, and is indicative of what can be done when people negotiate in good faith toward a mutually beneficial goal,” Coffee continued. “We look forward to sending this historic reform to Governor Henry to ratify the hard work all the parties have accomplished for the state.”

Current House Speaker Benge (who is now acting like 2009 never happened in pushing the GOP's new Corporate Welfare and Lawsuit Immunity laws) said back in 2009 about the then passed broadsweeping lawsuit reform:

We have said since the beginning of session that lawsuit reform was one of our top priorities, and this agreement represents a huge victory for the people of Oklahoma today.  All interested parties have worked together to make this deal a reality and I am proud of the collaboration that has occurred.  This legislation will ensure access to the courts for all who have legitimate claims, but will also bring some certainty to a system that has recently become a hindrance to economic development in our state. I look forward to Gov. Henry signing this bill.”

Dan Sullivan, a prominent lawyer for insurance companies and large corporations in Oklahoma and GOP Representative from Tulsa, also said in 2009: 

This agreement provides additional protections to the medical and business community from frivolous suits while protecting the right to a trial by a jury of their peers for those that are truly injured.

HOW SOON WE FORGET.  Now, the Oklahoma GOP Big Business Republicans, drunk with power in Oklahoma, having swept their way into the Governor's office and total, unfettered control of Oklahoma, plans to tip the scales of justice completely over in favor of negligent and reckless defendant tort feasors by passing the most broadsweeping and unconstitional civil justice changes in modern US History.  These laws should not and in fact do not appeal to social minded and reasonable Conservative Oklahomans.  See Example 1 and Example 2. 

The Oklahoma GOP is slithering these bills through at the Capital with very little fanfare and Oklahoma is just sitting back while the bandits are making away with the take.  In fact, Most Oklahomans do not know about these additional draconian changes and clearly do not know that not a single one of the "reforms" the GOP are now proposing favor individual Oklahomans- they all favor negligent and reckless civil defendants. 

ARBITRARY $250K DAMAGE CAPS  THAT RESTRICT JURY AWARDS NO MATTER HOW BAD A DEFENDANT ACTS AND HOW HORRIBLY AND PERMANENTLY AN INNOCENT OKLAHOMAN IS INJURED OR MAIMED = NO ACCOUNTABILITY.

And who bears the burden of this Corporate Bailout/Corporate Welfare?---regular Oklahomans- You, me, our kids, our parents, especially the must vulnerable of all:

  • children
  • the elderly
  • stay at home moms '
  • lower wage earners like pastors, fireman, police officers, teachers, etc.

According to the Oklahoma GOP, The most damages a jury can ever award these type of Oklahomans, no matter how catastrophic and long-term their injuries may be, is only 250k. 90% of Oklahomans would never support this type of law--yet it will likely sail through the on the backs of the politicians the Chamber put in place, right onto the desk of Mary Failing who will not even read it before she signs it. 

After these horrific and unconstitutional bills become law, Oklahomans who have LEGITIMATE CIVIL CASES and whose only avenue for justice is the COURTHOUSE, will be the one's left out in the cold with no way to get JUSTICE for their loss of quality of life---pain and suffering, disability, inability to earn a living, etc. 

The Oklahoma GOP's new, so-called "Tort Reform" rewards negligent corporations cutting corners for profits, bad nursing homes, foreign produce manufacturers like drug companies and medical device companies, bad doctors, unsafe truck drivers, drunk drivers, texting drivers etc. and their multi-billion dollar Insurance Company allies.   All this at the expense of your constitutional right to a non-biased and fair trial by jury of your peers- Oklahoma citizens. 

How about we let Oklahoma juries sort out legitimate civil disputes and not well-greased and bought-and-paid-for politicians (who talk out of both sides of their mouths depending on what year it is) and whose only interests they apparently protect are those of the corporate donors who got them elected and will keep them in office. 

Standing up for the Citizens of Oklahoma against Corporate Tyranny

Posted by Jacob Diesselhorst on February 17, 2011

I love Oklahoma.  I love the people of Oklahoma, all of them.  The hard-working men and woman, the elderly-who have paved the way for us and the children-who we are grooming to carry on the legacy for our state’s future. 

I love the idea of democracy and freedom.  This great country of ours’ was founded based on principles…certain unalienable rights that are bestowed upon all of us-- The principle that us all, whether white or black, rich or poor, republican or democrat, should be treated equally and be allowed to play on a level playing field.  In turn, our political system, the 3 branches of government, should continue to exemplify this ideal and support our efforts to uphold it.  Unfortunately, politics in Oklahoma has deteriorated into a power struggle for control of money and resources as opposed to an effort to embody the principles of freedom, equality and justice. 

Like many of us, I am disgusted by the ugly politics and lack of civility that has invaded government.  Party lines are now clearly drawn, as both sides teeter for control of a system that is now broken due to the power of special interests. Special interests have infested our politics to the point now there is no way to differentiate between two.  Oklahoma politics are no different.  Money talks. 

The Chamber, big business, big insurance and big oil have a tight grip on this State and the brass of the current leadership of the Oklahoma Republican party.  Don’t take my word for it?  Let the evidence speak for itself.  Look at the campaign finance reports for Oklahoma’s current GOP leadership, they read like a who’s who of Oklahoma’s business community, the super-rich and the PACS (Political Action Committees) formed by the special interests that now dictate Oklahoma politics. 

Unfortunately, this influence of the money and power of big business and corporations has infected Republican leadership and convinced them to pursue policy changes that do nothing to protect or assist the general public, but act only to further enrich and empower the voracious and self-serving interests of Corporations and Insurance Companies.  One disturbing example of special interests’ invasion into democracy is taking place in Oklahoma right now---with the efforts of a chosen few to force more so-called “tort reform” on the people of Oklahoma.  

Tort Reform (as it is called) is the effort by the Big Business wing of the Republican party (at the direction of the corporations who fund their political campaigns and reelections) to invade the sanctity of the judicial branch and legislate in the court room by taking away the autonomy of the civil jury and dictating how juries must decide cases and what evidence is and is not allowed to come in to evidence at trial. 

  • Politicans want to place an arbitrary, one-size-fits all hard cap of $250k on the amount of damages a civil jury can award a catstrophically injured Oklahoman for the rest of his or her lifetime no matter how severe the injuries and no matter how disgusting, reckless and wanton the conduct of the negligent Defendant. 
  • GOP Idealogs claim hard caps "deter frivolous lawsuits."  This is a BLATANT LIE.  Frivolous lawsuits never see the light of day in Oklahoma.  Numerous laws already in place require Expert Reports before lawsuits can be filed.  Moreover, Hard Caps do nothing to prevent minor injury lawsuits from being filed.  What arbitratry hard caps do cause---is for people with legitimate, long term catstrophic injuries (a brain injured child or a blinded teenager or a badly burned stay-at-home mom or a nursing home resident who is beaten to death and raped in his nursing home by a bad employee) from obtaining full and fair compensation for their injuries. 
  • Non-economic damages are meant to serve as a deterence to Corporations and individual and ensure that our highways, schools, airports, public transportaion, workplaces, products, etc.) are SAFE.  CAPS ELIMINATE THIS DETERENCE and actually give corporations, bad doctors, bad nurses, truck drivers, etc. a free license to run amuck in our state with no fear of every being punished above 250k.  (which is like a parking ticket to many multi-million dollar businesses, corporations and insurance companies)
  • Further, Policitians want to tip the scales of justice in favor of negligent defendants by giving a negligent tortfeasor's insurance company and CREDIT for any collateral source of insurance an injured Oklahoman has in awarding damages. 
  • In other words, if you are horribly injured in a trucking accident and have $150k in medical bills--the jury gets to know your health insurance company paid part of the bills, that part was written off and that part came out of your pocket.  Meanwhile, the fact that the negligent trucking company, hospital, oil and gas company etc. has millions of dollars in liability insurance will remain hidden from the jury. 
  • Even more disturbing, if you had the forsight to purcahse disability insurance or life insurance (in the case of a wrongful death case)--the negligent corporation's liability insurance company will also get a credit for that insurance money (even though it is from another seperate insurance company).  In other words, everyone benefits in this equation (the insurance companies and negligent defendants) EXCEPT THE ONE WHO SHOULD---THE CATASTROPHICALY INJURED OKLAHOMAN.

Our civil justice system is built on a principle of a balance of power and a weighing of the evidence to determine fault, liability and damages.  The scales of justice illustrate this ideal.  Our court system has successfully existed for hundreds of years built around the JURY.   The Jury being a group of citizens like you and me who are entrusted to hear the evidence of a particular case and work together to render a fair and reasoned verdict.  Now, however, politicians, not jurors, will decide the amount of damages to award in civil cases involving human injury and death by forcing upon a one-size fits all law that caps the maximum damages at $250,000.00 and decreases any economic damages awarded (medical bills, future medical bills, disability, loss of earnings, etc.) by the amounts of any collateral source of compensation that exists to pay part of them. 

In other words, “tort reform” serves to cripple the very purpose of the jury system—to leave it to the people to decide the damages to render against a defendant who has been found to be negligent, reckless or wanton in its conduct and, as a result, caused harm to another person---by taking away the right of jurors (OKLAHOMA CITIZENS) to fairly decide legal disputes.

I for one stand with the people of Oklahoma and their constitutional right to a fair jury trial by the people...not politicians.  With "tort reform"---Special Interests are completing the trifecta of infecting all 3 branches of government with their greed and self-serving influence.  Meanwhile, the citizens of Oklahoma stand by, unknowlingly, while their rights are taken away by corrupt politicans whose only motivation is to satisfy their biggest campaign donors (i.e., BIG BUSINESS/BIG INSURANCE) so they can hope to get relected. 

Sad but true. 

Politics as usual in this State cannot be allowed to continue.  The very rights to which each of us is entitled now hang in the balance. 

Announcing Oklahoma Injury Law Advocate, Hosted by Nix Law Group, PLLC

Posted by Jacob Diesselhorst on August 02, 2010

state-flag-oklahoma.jpgWe are pleased and proud to announce the launch of a new personal injury law information and resource blog in Oklahoma, Oklahoma Injury Law Advocate. 

The Oklahoma Injury Law Advocate will provide its readers and subscribers with regular information, updates and commentary relating to all issues affecting personal injury and wrongful death law.  In addition, this blog’s authors will act as activists for the legal and constitutional rights of the victims of catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death and their families in Oklahoma and nationwide. 

This informational legal blog is authored by the experienced attorneys of Nix Law Group, PLLC, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.  With the Oklahoma Injury Law Advocate, Nix Law Group hopes to provide the general public with a portal for cutting-edge developments and information relating to all issues of personal injury law. The Oklahoma Injury Law Advocate (“OILA”) will cover a broad spectrum of issues and will provide its readers with breaking news updates and coverage of important topics in the legal world.  OILA will also incllude important commentary, coverage and insights into the practice of law, developments in law that affect your rights, politics, media, current events, society and all other issues relating to serious personal injury and wrongful death law in Oklahoma. 

The Oklahoma Injury Law Advocate will be regularly updated with detailed information, resources and commentary for all Oklahomans.  OILA will also provide legal professionals and individuals seeking a better understanding of Oklahoma injury law with articles, important links and other valuable resources and information.  Lastly, our legal blog will provide its readers with outspoken advocacy and viewpoints dedicated to protecting the rights of the victims of preventable injury and death and their access to justice from negligent defendants and their powerful insurance company and corporate allies.

We invite you to become a subscriber or follower of The Oklahoma Injury Law Advocate and to comment on our blog posts with constructive responses, remarks or additional information or insights.