Recent Personal Injury Success Stories

$700,000 Eye Injury at school to boy in gym class.
A 16 year old boy lost his right eye after another two students were kicking around a tape ball and their activities were not supervised or stopped by two gym instructors in the immediate area.

The tape ball struck the boy in the eye as he sat down tying his shoe. The case settled at mediation.

• $350,000 Multilevel cervical fusion settled at mediation

A mother was shopping with her daughter, son in law and granddaughter. She reached won to select a spice bottle from a grocery shelf and the shelf system collapsed on her head and neck causing neck and upper back injuries.

The client suffered cervical injuries and underwent a double level cervical fusion with hardware and bone graft from her hip.

The supplier, grocery store and manufacturer of the spice product each contributed to the settlement.

• $1,200,000 Medical Malpractice-Esophageal perforation during biopsy.

A young man presented to the emergency department at Valley Medical Center in Renton, Washington for a biopsy of a mass in his mediastinum.

The mass was biopsied but the surgeon mistakenly lacerated the esophagus and this condition remained undiagnosed for several days.  After the biopsy, the patient left the hospital in pain and returned several hours later in with horrific low back pain and crepitus in his neck.