The Laverty family lost a husband and father after an alleged worksite toxic exposure in 2021. This wrongful death case settled in 2024.
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A husband and father died of an infection from a contaminated product manufactured overseas and sold online. The case partially resolved in 2024.
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My client was severely burned when a fire ignited on his Go Kart in 2023. The case settled in 2024.
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Settlement 2023
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.
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Settlement 2022
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.
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Settlement 2022
The plaintiff underwent a foot fusion and ankle operation that resulted in avascular necrosis of bones in the foot. $1,500,000 settlement.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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SETTLEMENT OCTOBER 2020
Our client was riding in a dinghy with her sister in Puget Sound, enjoying the summer sun. To her disbelief and horror, a yacht operator did not see the dinghy and plowed right into her, fracturing her hip.
$600,000 TOTAL SETTLEMENT, including $200,000 over the defendant’s insurance policy limits.
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SETTLEMENT JUNE 2020
Minor child riding as a passenger in a vehicle that spun out into a pole, suffering facial injuries. Early $350,000 settlement with at-fault driver and UIM insurer.
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I along with Karen Koehler represent the adult children of Timothy McNamara, who died on Christmas Day 2014 in Belize from a gunshot wound to the back-right side of the head. The person with him that night was his niece and purported wife, Tracy Nessl (who changed her last name to McNamara). She had claimed, among many things, that Mr. McNamara committed suicide.
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VERDICT DELIVERED FEBRUARY 2019: $123 million jury verdict, plus over $10 million in settlements. On September 24, 2015, the worst mass transit disaster in Seattle history occurred when a Ride the Ducks amphibious vehicle full of tourists suffered a catastrophic axle fracture on the Aurora Bridge and crashed into a Motor Coach carrying international students from North Seattle College. A total of five students were killed and 70 others injured.
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SETTLEMENT JUNE 2019. Young child injured after falling through defective railing balusters. She suffered a concussion and unilateral hearing loss. $500,000 pre-litigation settlement.
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SETTLEMENT DECEMBER 2017. Mother and son died in a condominium fire started by a downstairs neighbor, and did not escape in time because the homeowners association failed to install mandatory common area smoke detectors. Multi-million dollar recovery for the surviving spouse and son.
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SETTLEMENT MAY 2018. I represented the family of a brilliant young woman who recently graduated from Columbia University and moved home to Seattle to live with her family. Just months after starting her new life, she drowned during a beginner Scuba class after her instructor lost track of the class. The case settled early in litigation for $1,000,000 policy limits.
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SETTLEMENT AUGUST 2020. Represented the family of a man killed during a motorcycle vacation in Bend, Oregon. He had struck a deer and was trying to get up off the road when a woman driving a pickup ran over him.
The case was subject to Oregon’s cap on damages. Settlement for $675,000 in August 2020, co-counsel Greg Zeuthen of Portland.
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SETTLEMENT AUGUST 2019. $1.75 million pre-litigation settlement in maritime wrongful death claim where worker was struck by line that snapped while docking a tug boat.
Products liability claim is under investigation.
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I represented a mentally disabled man who lost his entire life income to predatory business loan companies. The claim resulted in a $750,000 Consumer Protection Act and fraud recovery early in litigation.
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A truck driver making a delivery at a yard was walking back to his truck when he was struck by another truck. Investigation revealed that the property was carelessly redesigned to direct trucks around a blind corner into pedestrian travel. The case resulted in a multimillion settlement.
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