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The Laverty family lost a husband and father after an alleged worksite toxic exposure in 2021. This wrongful death case settled in 2024.
A husband and father died of an infection from a contaminated product manufactured overseas and sold online. The case partially resolved in 2024.
My client was severely burned when a fire ignited on his Go Kart in 2023. The case settled in 2024.
Liability insurer paid $950,000 over policy limits in a wrongful death case where we alleged the insurer failed to negotiate the claim in good faith when the victim's father was unrepresented. Co-counsel: Ronaldo Delgado of Moses Lake, WA.
The cauda equina is a bundle of nerve roots at the lower end of the spinal cord. Just like with the spinal cord, damage or disruption can lead to paralysis.
The plaintiff underwent a foot fusion and ankle operation that resulted in avascular necrosis of bones in the foot. $1,500,000 settlement.
There is a quote attributed to Buddha: Three things cannot be hidden long—the sun, the moon, and the truth. In this case it took seven years, but the truth is no longer hidden. According to a Grant County jury, Tracy Nessl McNamara killed Tim McNamara on Christmas Day in Belize, 2014.
SETTLEMENT 2021
Client was exiting one vehicle when he was struck and pinned by another. He suffered a dislocated hip and acetabular fracture. Both the liability and UIM insurance policies offered prompt settlements totaling $500,000.
SETTLEMENT NOVEMBER 2021
Our client was an avid cyclist riding on SR 500 in Vancouver, Washington when an uinsured driver pulled out from a stop sign and struck him. He suffered life threatening injuries. Within months of initiating a UIM claim, the UIM insurance company paid $500,000 policy limits.
At 17, Emeka Megwa was living a boy’s dream. Chicago-born and Texas-raised, the nationally touted running back stepped from a gangway into a seaplane on the shore of Seattle’s sparkling Lake Union three summers ago.
An Oklahoma football player reportedly has filed a civil lawsuit against the University of Washington for medical negligence when he played for the Huskies.
The Seattle Times reported Thursday that current Oklahoma Sooners running back Emeka Megwa, who played for the Huskies from 2021-22, is suing the university and “nine current or former members of its sports medicine staff, coaching staff, athletic trainers and physical therapists” for negligence in rehabilitating an ACL injury he suffered in June 2021, leading to its reinjury in March 2022.
Seattle Times staff reporter
A former Husky football player filed a civil lawsuit against the University of Washington Monday seeking damages for alleged medical negligence, according to King County Superior Court records.
February 8, 2024
By Elise Takahama
Seattle Times Staff Reporter
A jury has awarded $215,000 to three families of patients who were exposed to Aspergillus mold in Seattle Children’s operating rooms in 2019 — a fungus that has plagued the region’s largest pediatric hospital off and on for more than 20 years.
KOMO News February 8, 2024
SEATTLE — Seattle Children's must pay approximately $215,000 to people who were exposed to aspergillus mold inside the hospital.
A Snohomish County man died from a blood infection likely linked to over-the-counter eye drops, which are now being recalled by its company after federal health officials confirmed a nationwide outbreak this week.
Author: Kristin Goodwillie
SEATTLE — In a lawsuit filed Thursday against Seattle University, four former and current students say the school was deceptive, promising a degree that none of the students ever received.
The students were enrolled in a doctorate program but believed they’d be able to attain a master's in nursing.
GRANT COUNTY, Wash. — The Grant County Coroner’s Office has identified the teenager killed in a violent crash on August 1.
By Pete O’Cain
Wenatchee World Staff Writer
EPHRATA — A Grant County woman on Friday was found responsible for the death of her husband-uncle in a rare civil murder case.
In November 2019, Seattle Children’s Hospital shocked the public by admitting its hospital had been contaminated with Aspergillus mold since 2001 which sickened and caused the death of numerous child patients.
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