Senator Austin Ansingh

I received a traffic ticket in Puyallup because of an accident I was involved in. My auto insurance agent Doug Schmidli recommended I call Durflinger and Oliver for legal representation to fight the ticket. Everyone at Durflinger and Oliver is friendly and easy to talk with. To hire them for represen...tation I didn't even have to go to their office. I paid $250 over the phone with my card and signed digitial pdf documents on my phone. Right away they were requesting the ticket information from Puyallup. A few days later I also emailed Durflinger and Oliver some diagrams of the accident because the position of the four vehicles involved is easier to understand with everything laid out on paper. They were happy to receive my diagrams and pictures of my truck to better understand the circumstances of the accident. My insurance claim adjuster inquired at businesses in the area of the accident to see if any security camera's recorded the accident. She found a business that later said they have video of the accident but they refused to allow my adjuster to see the video. The business manager told my claims adjuster the video could only be reviewed or obtained by the Puyallup police department. The police said they would go view the video and after waiting more than a week they never did. I finally decided to call Durflinger and Oliver to see if they could help. When talking with Austin Ansingh, the attorney assigned to my case, he was very willing to help due to the business being so difficult releasing the video. He emailed the business a subpoena requesting the video and they had 14 days to respond before they would ultimately have to surrender the video. Within 20 minutes of Austin sending the email the business emailed him back with the video. The law firm later sent the video to my claims adjuster. In addition to my diagrams the video is a very important piece of the insurance investigation because it further proves that although I committed a minor traffic violation, the other driver broke many more serious traffic laws that contributed to the accident. For fighting the ticket Austin didn't even have to appear before the judge. Him and the Puyallup prosecutor talked about the accident shortly before the hearing and Austin told the prosecutor that one of his arguments against the ticket would be that the officer cited the wrong RCW code. The prosecutor agreed with Austin's recommendations for why the ticket could be dismissed if the judge were to hear my contested hearing. They gave the paperwork for dismissal to the judge and the judge signed off on the dismissal without even hearing the case. Austin called me after the dismissal to tell me the case was dismissed. While we were talking he said that Puyallup and Bonney Lake can be almost impossible to win against in traffic court because they are known to rewrite tickets with applicable laws so they can't be dismissed for an officer citing the wrong law or traffic code. Austin said that the officer who wrote my ticket must not have been available or the city didn't want to bother having him appear to rewrite the ticket. Austin Ansingh is very knowledgeable about the traffic laws and how the cities and jurisdictions in the area handle their tickets and infractions and how to best fight them. Three lessons I learned from this fiasco: 1. Drive more carefully and follow the traffic laws, 2. Don't get traffic tickets in Puyallup and Bonney Lake, 3. Call Durflinger and Oliver because they will refuse to negotiate and will go to court to fight for their clients if the case permits.