In this case, our client was a Pierce County infant and his family. Although clinic personnel at the clinic the mother went to for pregnancy care recognized her as a high-risk patient, her care was transferred to an unlicensed third-year family medicine resident whose labor and delivery experience consisted of ten weeks of training at [...]

A 60-year-old civilian employee at the Naval Shipyards in Bremerton started having pain in his left elbow.  X-ray confirmed the presence of a loose body and osteophytes in his elbow.  The orthopedic surgeon recommended, and the employee agreed to, arthroscopic surgery.  The surgeon also ordered an ECG, as part of the work-up for surgery.  The [...]

A Spokane man in his early thirties underwent a lumbar transforaminal epidural steroid injection to address his complaints of lower back pain.  He emerged with a spinal cord injury, causing loss of the uses of his legs, control of his bowel and bladder, and sexual function.  The defendants were the interventional anesthesiologist who performed the [...]

In this case the mother experienced a full-term normal pregnancy.  While she was in labor, changes in the electronic fetal monitoring strip  indicated that the umbilical cord was probably becoming compressed, interrupting the flow of oxygen to the baby’s brain.  When this happens, minutes matter.  If lack of oxygen to the baby’s brain persists, permanent [...]

Linda, a 38-year old single mom and longtime IRS employee living in Issaquah, began acting increasingly erratically.  Her friends thought she had a substance abuse problem, but she was also slowly going blind.  When she was driving with her son one day and suddenly couldn’t see the road anymore, she agreed to see an ophthalmologist, [...]

A six-year-old boy died at a fitness center after an injury sustained while his father worked out on the cable crossover machine.  Somehow the father pulled the equipment over.  The boy sat at a bench, reading a book, approximately six feet away.  The crossbar struck him on the head, fatally. We represented the boy’s mother.  [...]

Our clients were the wife and two teenage children of the deceased, who died at age 60 from colon cancer. Colon cancer has a hereditary component. Our client’s husband came from a family where literally every member for the past two generations on his mother’s side was diagnosed with colorectal cancer or had multiple colonic [...]

Our clients were a 48 year old man and his wife.  We got an award of more than $1 million. The case was against a Kitsap County primary care doctor.  Our client, a 48-year-old man went to his doctor reporting persistent rectal bleeding.  The doctor performed a digital rectal exam, found no active bleeding, and [...]

In a medical negligence case that spilled over into a products liability case, we demonstrated that a test, then commonly used by doctors to determine whether a patient is allergic to insect stings, had an unacceptable rate of false negatives. The test regularly came back negative on people who were actually allergic and at risk [...]

Our client was a 31-year-old phlebotomist who contracted HIV from an on-the-job needlestick. After drawing blood from a patient, our client attempted to dispose of the needle in a sharps container. Design defects in the sharps container made it impossible for our client to ascertain that it was already full of needles, pointing up towards [...]