Jacob Biby has spent his legal career helping folks just like you get the resources they need after a personal injury, car accident, or oil field injury. He completed his undergraduate degree at Oklahoma State University and earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of Tulsa in 2008. Jacob is licensed to practice in all Oklahoma state and federal courts. Learn more about Jacob Biby.
Posts by Jacob Biby
What Are the Dangers of Extreme Heat?
Recently, data was collected to determine the heavy human and financial toll that heatwaves have caused over the course of forty years. Not surprisingly, two heatwaves that occurred in Oklahoma happened to make the list. The first heatwave occurred in the summer of 1998, and the second between spring and Summer of 2011. In the…
Read MoreWhy Truck Drivers Should Worry About Today’s Motorists
We spend a lot of time talking about the dangers that commercial vehicles and 18-wheeles pose to drivers. Those dangers are real: the sheer size of a big rig is enough to turn any accident into a fatal one. As a recent survey shows, however, truck drivers may have something to worry about, too –…
Read MoreProtecting Your Child Athlete from Injuries
Many people are looking forward to returning to some form of the normalcy we had before the coronavirus pandemic led to a global lockdown. For some parents, that sense of normalcy includes preparing their children for returning to sports. With schools making the decision to open back up in a few weeks, many parents and…
Read MoreNursing Home Deaths Surge Even Without COVID
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to thousands of deaths in nursing homes across the country and Oklahoma is no exception. Reports are that more than 90,000 residents of nursing homes in the country have died during the pandemic. However, the pandemic isn’t the only thing to blame as nursing homes have long seen issues with…
Read MoreHow to Increase Your Chances of Surviving a Car Accident
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) released data from 2019 (the most recent year available) in March 2021 for car accident fatalities. The IIHS mined data from the United States Department of Transportation’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). The data for 2019 shows an alarming number of fatal traffic accidents that occurred in Oklahoma.…
Read MoreHomes for Veterans Hit the Hardest Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, one of the worst places to live was in a nursing home. Some of the worst places nursing homes were those run by states and the federal government for veterans of the armed forces. There are 150 of these homes in the country where…
Read MoreWorkers’ Compensation Claims for Hand and Finger Injuries
Hand and finger injuries are two of the most common causes for workers’ compensation claims. Not only do these injuries occur often, but because of their nature, they can make it virtually impossible for a person to do any work – and they can take a very long time to heal. Today, we are going…
Read MoreWhat You Should Know About Property Damage as Part of Your Injury Claim
Being involved in a car crash is a serious matter, and your first priority should be getting medical treatment for any injuries you and/or your passengers may have sustained. But we also know that once you are released from the hospital (or leave the ER) and the initial shock of the accident wears off, there’s…
Read MoreIt’s Time to Get Serious About Plugging Orphaned Wells
Oklahoma has a long history with oil and gas. It helped build our economy and our cities before we were even a state, and it’s a driving force in our economy, and our culture, today. While people across the country contend with the future of this industry, there is one thing about which we should…
Read MoreWhat We Can All Learn from the Tesla Drone Hack
In 2020, some researchers used a drone to hack a Tesla. If you are interested in Tesla or computer hacking or drones, this may have seemed like a very big deal. If you are not interested in those things, perhaps you didn’t even know a Tesla was hacked. But for those of us who don’t…
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