2008

$ 207,000.00 – Benton County

Office worker was walking down stairs at newly constructed facility. Grabbed handrail on stairs which immediately pulled free from wall, causing worker to fall and injure his back on the stairs. Defendants alleged that the rail was properly installed, despite its having come out of the wall so readily.

$ 123,000.00 – Kittitas County

A young woman was seriously injured when the driver of her vehicle ran a stop sign and crashed into a telephone pole. Allstate Insurance Company, on behalf of the driver, denied liability for its insured failing to stop at the stop sign at a T- intersection. Defendant alleged that the stop-ahead lights were not working. We showed that not only were stop-ahead lights working, but that the defendant missed numerous indicators that an intersection was approaching.

$ 75,000.00 – Okanogan County

The defendant jet-ski driver crashed into dock, injuring passenger, who had a long-standing, pre-existing hydrocephalus condition that required shunting to relieve pressure on her brain. The driver alleged that the passenger was at fault.

$ 42,000.00 – Mason County

An adjacent boater towed a skier too close to our client’s boat. The tow-rope crossed our client’s boat, caught his arm and injured him.