$2.25 million settlement for a carpenter who fell and permanently injured his spinal cord when a makeshift scaffold collapsed on a residential construction project
$1.56 million jury verdict for a carpenter who fell down an elevator shaft, causing bilateral heel bone fractures and compression fractures in his lower back, when a barrier across the shaft opening gave way
$1 million settlement for a carpenter who fell when scaffolding collapsed, causing head and back injuries
Maritime Cases (Jones Act and Seaworthiness)
$2.1 million settlement for a deckhand who sustained a crush injury during a haulback on a fish processor in the Bering Sea
$850,000 jury verdict for the head cook on a fish processor who developed a disabling pain condition, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD)/CRPS, in her right arm after she slipped on an unsafe galley floor
Confidential settlement on behalf of a fisheries observer who injured his lower back while attempting to transfer a 50lb box of fish to a scale for measurement
$1.1 million settlement for family of fisherman who died when the F/V Katmai sank in the Bering Sea
Auto/Other Personal Injury
$895,000 settlement for a machinist who was rear-ended by a semi owned by Werner Trucking Co; chronic neck pain, reactivation of PTSD that originated with his Vietnam War service
$840,000 settlement for a bike messenger who was hit by a car while making a delivery; suffering serious facial injuries
$825,000 settlement from a "big box store" for a woman who developed Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) after a roll of flooring fell on her foot
Medical Malpractice & Nursing Home Malpractice and Neglect
$1.6 million settlement of an obstetrical malpractice case against an HMO whose doctor failed to properly manage the client's labor and the delivery of her child
Confidential settlement from orthopedist on behalf of client, a nurse consultant, whose nerve was severed in a hand surgery intended to protect the nerve
Confidential settlements in multiple cases against nursing homes for injuries to residents from falls, bedsores, and other instances of neglect
Toxic Torts/Class Actions
$2.2 million class action settlement for residents of a mobile home park built on an old municipal landfill and sited next to an active landfill with uncontrolled methane gas emissions
Seven-figure confidential settlement on behalf of local property owner against railroad for property damage and loss of business income due to contamination of groundwater in community from historical dumping practices
$3.8 million settlement with the State of Washington on behalf of trades workers who were paid less than other trades workers doing same work
Confidential settlement in addition to a $545,000 jury verdict against two water companies that supplied water that corroded homeowners' copper plumbing and contaminated their drinking water
$600,000 jury verdict on behalf of 59 households supplied with contaminated and erratically chlorinated tap water
