Cases

Notable matters

Oso Landslide — Environmental tort

Combined $71.5 million in settlements on behalf of survivors and families who lost homes and loved ones in the March 2014 disaster. Corrie served as a lead attorney in the litigation.

Ride the Ducks fatality

Significant confidential settlement for the family of the youngest international student passenger killed in the collision.

Maritime injury — Bering Sea

$2.1 million for a deckhand who sustained a crush injury during haulback on a Bering Sea fish processor.

Construction injury — Scaffold collapse

$2.25 million for a carpenter with a permanent spinal cord injury from a collapsed makeshift scaffold.

Medical malpractice — Obstetrics

$1.6 million regarding failed labor and delivery management by an HMO physician.

Environmental tort — Mobile home park

$2.2 million class action for residents of a park built on an old municipal landfill with methane emissions.

Class action — State of Washington

$3.8 million settlement with the state for trades workers paid less than other trades doing the same work.

Auto / truck injury

$895,000 for a machinist rear-ended by a Werner Trucking semi; chronic neck pain and PTSD reactivation.

Urban bicyclist injury

$840,000 for a bike messenger with serious facial injuries from a car collision.

Construction injury — Elevator shaft fall (jury verdict)

$1.56 million for a carpenter who fell down an improperly barricaded elevator shaft.

Environmental tort — Water contamination

Confidential settlement plus $545,000 jury verdict against two water companies for copper plumbing corrosion and drinking water contamination.

Maritime death

$1.1 million for the family of a fisherman who died when the F/V Katmai sank in the Bering Sea.

Environmental tort — Groundwater contamination

Seven-figure confidential settlement for a property owner against a major U.S. corporation for contamination from historical dumping.