Sosa/Silvestre v. Mirikeen Homes and Oso Construction

Jul 21, 2010

OUTCOME: $3M settlement

Two construction workers were injured when a brick wall they were erecting fell on them.

Jane Doe v. Municipal Defendant

Sep 21, 2009

OUTCOME: $2.2M settlement

Scales v. Edgewater Hotel

Jul 23, 2009

OUTCOME: $500,000 settlement

Plaintiff was collecting refuse, when he slipped on oil on the Defendant's property. Plaintiff injured his shoulder and needed surgery.

Tanayia N. Blanchard v. King County Housing Authority and Allied Group, Inc.

Jan 20, 2009

OUTCOME: $7 million policy limit settlement

This was a playground accident case that happened on June 18, 2006. Then 11 year old Tanayia Blanchard suffered a severe and debilitating anoxic brain injury when her neck became entangled in a cloth ... rope that had been attached to a section of playground equipment at an apartment complex in Federal Way, Washington. The rope had been tied to the equipment for a week or more according to resident witness testimony, police findings and expert forensic evaluation. Suit was filed on behalf of Ms. Blanchard and her parents against the property owner and property manager alleging negligence in playground maintenance in allowing the rope hazard to exist on the playground. The case was settled for all available policy limits for the property owner and property management company.

Brown v. Suni's on 99

Feb 04, 2008

OUTCOME: $500,000 settlement

Plaintiff was injured when a man involved in a bar fight left the bar and drove his car into another car, which hit the Plaintiff.

Free v. Global Development, et al.

Jan 25, 2005

OUTCOME: Settlement for $1.1 million

I represented a construction worker injured on the job when he was violently thrown from the scaffolding on which he was standing. Our client was acting as a "hose man," directing the pouring of concre ... te into a wall form at commercial construction site. The hose our client was holding was connected to a long boom arm, which was connected to a concrete pump truck. Air or a plug developed in the boom arm when the pump truck was repositioned and the blockage in the line was not properly cleared. The blockage, when finally freed, caused the hose to whip out of control and strike our client, throwing him up and off of the scaffolding on which he was standing, and into a concrete slab six feet below. Our client sustained significant, permanent head and back injuries and he was not able to return to work in the construction field. We spent over three years in litigation, collecting evidence of negligence on the part of the general contractor and a subcontractor at the job site. The case settled just a few months before trial for an amount that allowed our client and his family to recover and build a future that the accident nearly destroyed.