If you are suing someone in the State of Oregon for negligence, you might be surprised what a court might say.  

Oregon is what they call a Comparative Fault/Negligence State, which means you can sue for negligence and the jury gets to  determine if both you and the other person were partly at fault.  

For example, you are crossing the street and get hit by a car but you were texting on your phone at the time.  A jury can say that you were 20% at fault and the motorist was 80% at fault.  So if they award $100,000, you would only get $80,000.   If they say you were 50% at fault and the other person was 50% at fault, nobody gets any money.