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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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GRANT COUNTY, Wash. — The Grant County Coroner’s Office has identified the teenager killed in a violent crash on August 1.
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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.
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SEATTLE — At least 11 plaintiffs on Friday filed a civil lawsuit in King County Superior Court, accusing Seattle and Washington state officials from failing to provide adequate protection for them from out of control drivers or police officers while they were demonstrating.
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SEATTLE PI: A person died after falling into the Duwamish Waterway in South Seattle early Thursday morning. Around 4:45 a.m., the Seattle Fire Department received calls saying a "worker" had fallen into the water near the 5200 block of E. Marginal Way S. About 15 minutes later, the department reported the person had been taken out of the water and onto a barge.
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KTVZ: A 59-year-old Everett, Wash., man was killed Monday afternoon when his motorcycle struck a deer on Century Drive in southwest Bend and he was then hit by a pickup truck, police said Tuesday.
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SEATTLE TIMES: A King County jury on Thursday awarded about $123 million to the victims and their families in the 2015 Ride the Ducks crash that killed five people and injured more than 60 others. The jury determined after a four-month civil trial that Ride the Ducks International — the Branson, Missouri-based manufacturer of the Duck amphibious vehicle — bore 67 to 70 percent of the responsibility for the crash.
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NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY: Injured international students from the Ride the Ducks accident on the Aurora Bridge will be given private insurance plans if they lose student health coverage during prolonged medical leaves, state officials said last Friday.
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SEATTLE TIMES: The lack of a barrier separating oncoming traffic on the Aurora Bridge is being pointed out in the multiple lawsuits stemming from the 2015 Ride the Ducks crash that killed five people and injured 71 others.
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KIRO 7 NEWS: For parents suffering the loss of a child, the grief will always be raw. “On July 7, 2014, our son Bradley Hogue, 19, was horrifically killed on his second day at work,” his mother Deanna Hogue said.
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KIRO 7 NEWS: The family of the two victims killed in the Bellevue Chimney condominiums fire wants to hold the man who police say started the fire accountable. They filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Christo Fournarakis and his wife, along with the Chimney Homeowner's Association.
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SEATTLE TIMES: Rescuers found the 22-year-old woman under water Sunday, and she was pronounced dead less than two hours later, investigators said.
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SEATTLE TIMES: A worker for a Boeing supplier has died from injuries caused when a passenger-seat air-bag inflater accidentally discharged during installation on the Everett flight line last month.
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MY NORTHWEST: Renters beware: Some landlords may try to scam you out of your security deposit. While state law gives landlords the right to withhold portions of a deposit for damages beyond normal wear and tear, some have made it a practice to keep money they are not entitled to.
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