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06/18/2026

To prove negligence we have to show three things.

There was a duty owed by the at-fault person. The plaintiff was in the class of people that duty was owed to. And the at-fault person breached that duty — they didn't do what they were supposed to do, or they did something the wrong way.

We use industry standards, codes, and regulations to figure out what should have happened and what didn't.

06/17/2026

Just because someone is hurt on a property does not necessarily mean the property owner is at fault. Sometimes things just happen and the property could be fine. For a property owner to be responsible, we have to show they had possession, control, or ownership. We must also show there was something unreasonably dangerous on the property that they knew or should have known was there.

The status of the client matters because the standard of care is different for a trespasser, a licensee, or an invitee. The courts have said we cannot hold an owner to the highest level of care if they are not expecting someone to be there. A person in an employee-only storage room who trips over a cord might be a trespasser. This is different from a business invitee who enters a grocery store to shop. We have to show an unreasonably dangerous condition existed that the owner knew about and did nothing about.

06/16/2026

A pedestrian client got hit by a car in a crosswalk. The driver claimed she jumped in front of the vehicle. A nearby business security camera would have captured everything, but their policy was to keep footage for a week and delete it unless they knew something had happened. They didn't know. The video was gone. Without it, the case dragged into full litigation — we deposed 14 different drivers who had been in the area, called people who had posted on Facebook about the news coverage, hired an accident reconstructionist, and deposed both parties. We eventually proved she was in the crosswalk, but the whole thing cost far more time and money than it should have.

One of the first things I tell people when they call me — even if they're not sure they want me to represent them yet — is go find out if there's video. Does a business have footage of it? Does someone have a Ring camera that might have caught something? Ask them to preserve it.

06/11/2026

After 14 years of handling injury cases, you start to notice a pattern.

Whether it’s a car accident, a slip on ice, or something like a dog bite… a lot of times, it’s not the first time it’s happened.

And if no one steps in, it won’t be the last.

That’s where we come in—advocating for our clients and making sure the right person is held accountable.

06/10/2026

I had a pedestrian versus motor vehicle collision where the collision happened around 11:30 at night. The client was walking home from work, they were dressed in a dark t-shirt and jeans. They had been drinking, they weren’t in the crosswalk, and they got hit by a car.

And I say these defenses because these were all of the things that the insurance company came and said: 'You don’t deserve any type of recovery. You were at fault, you were wearing black, it was dark, you weren’t in the crosswalk, you had been drinking,' trying to place blame on my client as the pedestrian.

Meanwhile, our research showed that the driver never braked, had been going at excessive speeds—we found that through the video footage from the different businesses that we collected on his route before he hit our client.

06/09/2026

There’s a stigma around personal injury cases.
That people are being greedy, or asking for too much.
But the reality is, we can’t undo what happened.
We can’t give someone their health back.
The only way the system allows someone to recover is financially.
And that’s not about greed. It’s about accountability, and making sure it doesn’t happen to someone else.

06/05/2026

Premises liability cases aren’t easy, and most firms avoid them.

Why?
They’re expensive, time-consuming, and almost always turn into a fight over who’s to blame.

And too often, that blame gets pushed onto the person who was hurt.

At Cardinal North, we take those cases on.

We dig deep—working with experts, investigating the scene, and building the case to hold the right party accountable.

Because the burden shouldn’t fall on someone simply walking through a space—it belongs to the people responsible for maintaining it.

Our job isn’t just to prove what happened.
It’s to stand up for our clients and push back when they’re unfairly blamed.

06/04/2026

Personal injury cases come down to four pieces.

Did someone have a responsibility?
Did they fail to meet it?
Did that cause harm?
And what did it actually cost the person?

Some of that is straightforward.

Some of it isn’t.

Because the real impact on someone’s life doesn’t always show up in a bill or a record—and that’s part of what we have to prove.

06/03/2026

My name is Jennifer Bechtold, and I’m a plaintiff’s personal injury attorney.

At Cardinal North, we help people who’ve been hurt because someone else didn’t follow through on what they were responsible for.

At the end of the day, it’s about making lives whole—our clients, our team, and the community we’re part of.

05/30/2026

Not every injury case works the same way.

In some situations, the activity itself is considered so dangerous that responsibility is automatic.

Things like dangerous animals or hazardous materials—if someone gets hurt, the person in control is responsible.

At the core of it, that’s what liability really comes down to.

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