Automobile/Motorcycle/Pedestrian Accidents

  • Automobile accident causing death, resulting in a recovery/judgment of $17.9 million.
  • Pedestrian versus bus accident, resulting in multiple injuries including Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome and loss of occupation, resulting in a recovery of $4.5 million.
  • Automobile accident caused by a drunk driver causing two deaths and two serious injuries, resulting in a policy limits recovery of $3.3 million.
  • Motorcycle accident causing severe leg and other injuries including a traumatic brain injury, resulting in a recovery of $1.875 million.
  • Motorcycle accident causing severe leg injuries, resulting in a recovery of $1.75 million.
  • Automobile accident causing a neck injury, resulting in a recovery of $822,000.
  • Automobile accident causing a neck injury leaving client in chronic pain, resulting in a recovery of $750,000.
  • Automobile accident resulting in neck injury preventing client’s continued employment as a pipe fitter, resulting in a recovery of $675,000.
  • Automobile accident causing a permanent foot injury, resulting in a recovery of $525,000.
  • Automobile accident causing hearing damage, resulting in a recovery of $450,000.
  • Automobile accident causing multiple fractures, resulting in a recovery of $405,000.
  • Automobile accident causing neck, back and brain injuries, resulting in a recovery of $350,000.
  • Automobile versus pedestrian accident causing eye, knee, neck and brain injuries, resulting in a recovery of $325,000.
  • Automobile accident and dram shop liability wrongful death claim resulting in recovery in excess of $275,000, and waiver of over $500,000 in medical bills.
  • Automobile accident causing injury to multiple clients, resulting in a policy limits recovery of over $300,000.
  • Automobile accident causing a back injury, treated by multiple injections and minimally invasive spine surgery, resulting in a policy limits recovery of $100,000 and an underinsured motorists recovery of $150,000, for a total recovery of $250,000.
  • Automobile accident causing neck, back and brain injuries, resulting in a recovery of $250,000.
  • Automobile accident, causing neck injury, resulting in a recovery of $250,000.
  • Automobile accident causing an eye injury, resulting in a recovery of $250,000.
  • Automobile accident causing neck, back and brain injuries, resulting in a recovery of $250,000.
  • Automobile accident causing spinal fractures and depression, resulting in a recovery of $240,000.
  • Automobile accident causing a neck and brain injury, and chronic pain syndrome, resulting in a recovery of $240,000.
  • Bicycle versus automobile accident causing shoulder, chest and ankle injuries, resulting in a recovery of $230,000.
  • Automobile accident causing a shoulder injury requiring surgical repair, resulting in a recovery of $227,500.
  • Automobile accident causing spinal injury requiring neurosurgical repair, and vocal cord damage during surgery, resulting in a policy limits recovery of $200,000.
  • Automobile accident causing a neck injury, treated by surgical fusion, resulting in a recovery of $200,000.
  • Automobile accident causing a neck injury, treated by surgical fusion, resulting in a recovery of $200,000.
  • Automobile accident causing neck and shoulder injuries, resulting in a recovery of $195,000.
  • Automobile accident resulting in multiple injuries, resulting in a recovery of $175,000.
  • Automobile accident causing non-surgical neck injury, resulting in recovery of $170,000.
  • Automobile accident causing debilitating headaches, resulting in a recovery in excess of $165,000.
  • Automobile accident and dram shop liability causing traumatic brain and neck injuries resulting in a recovery in excess of $155,000.
  • Automobile accident causing a back injury, resulting in a recovery for the plaintiff of $140,000.
  • Automobile accident causing a shoulder injury, resulting in a recovery of $120,000.
  • More than 30 other automobile accident cases in which the recovery was in excess of $100,000.
  • Hundreds of other automobile accident cases in which the recovery was under $100,000

Medical and Other Malpractice

  • Elder Abuse, resulting in a recovery of $1 million.
  • Psychiatric Malpractice, resulting in recovery of $650,000.
  • Unlicensed Medical Malpractice, resulting in judgment for plaintiff of $349,132.05.
  • Medical Malpractice, improper placement of a subclavian catheter, resulting in recovery for the plaintiff of $300,000.
  • Medical Malpractice, retained instrument following surgery of $150,000.
  • Chiropractic Negligence, resulting in a policy limits recovery of $100,000.

Premises and Products Liability

  • Two hip replacement revision procedures caused by metallosis condition from defective Stryker hip replacement, resulting in a recovery of $280,000.
  • Trip injury at concert venue due to unmarked, unlit tree stump causing a fractured hip, resulting in a recovery of $200,000.
  • Slip and fall injury, resulting in a recovery of $135,000.
  • Slip and fall injury due to failure to remove spill in convenience store causing fractured rib, hip, knee, vision and hearing injuries, resulting in a recovery of $125,000.
  • Landscaping company negligence causing bicycle accident causing second metatarsal fracture, brain injury and vertigo, resulting in a recovery of $122,000.
  • Landlord liability for unsafe deck causing leg injury, resulting in a recovery in excess of $100,000.

Disability Insurance

  • Recovery for plaintiff with chemical sensitivity of $177,825 from disability insurer who had denied her claim.
  • Recovery for plaintiff with bipolar disorder of $100,000 from disability insurer who had denied his claim.

Other

Represented plaintiffs in lawsuit on behalf of over 200 mobile home park residents challenging rezone of Mobile Home Park to allow big box commercial development. This resulted in settlement in which Mobile Home Park residents purchased the property thus securing their long-term residential interests.

Participated in path-breaking litigation Birklid v. Boeing in which the Washington Supreme Court redefined the “deliberate intention” to injure test, allowing the first recovery for intentional injuries on the part of a Washington workers in over 75 years.

Plaintiff’s Counsel in Dreier v. United States, 106 F.3d 844 (1996), in which the Ninth Circuit allowed the widow of a serviceman killed on the base at Fort Lewis to sue the government, expanding the exceptions of the “incident to military service” bar first announced in Feres vs. United States.
Dreier v. United States, 106 F.3d 844 (1996).

Successfully argued the appeal in McKibbin v. City of Seattle, in which the Washington State Court of Appeals, Division I, ruled that no notice of a defect in a street drain was required to the City where the negligence alleged was the City’s failure to adhere to the industry standard at the time of reconstruction of the street drain.

Successfully argued the appeal in Farole v. Pratt, in which the Washington State Court of Appeals, Division I, ruled that amendment of a complaint related back to the time of filing and thus the case was brought in a timely manner, where the defendant received notice of the lawsuit with the statute of limitations plus 90 days, there was no prejudice to the defendant in defending the claim on the merits and the insurance company had notice of the claim well prior to the filing of the complaint.