• Personal Injury cases

- $179,000 total settlement (including policy limits from carrier for at-fault driver, Personal Injury Protection/PIP waiver and underinsured settlement) for injured physician driver with head, neck, finger injuries after major auto collision.

- $163,000 settlement after mediation for significant burns to infant accidentally scalded at King County daycare center.

- $145,000 mediated settlement for elderly shopper who slipped, fell, broke hip on steps with no handrail while departing a furniture store, requiring move to assisted-living facility. Uniform Building Code violation.

- $85,000 mediated settlement for elderly resident in assisted care facility whose attendant, wheeling resident to toilet, rammed resident into wall fracturing femur.

- $85,000 settlement from policy limits and (PIP) subrogation waiver for ice skater with neck, back and sacroiliac injuries after near head-on collision. Restricted ability to perform ice skating jumps after accident.

- $75,000 for lady with previous hydrocephalus rear-ended on I-5 by drunk driver causing claimant head, neck injuries and increased cranial pressure.

- $75,000 mediated settlement for injuries to former tri-athlete after significant rear-end collision.

- $60,000 settlement for diabetic school teacher whose foot was burned and nearly scalded in a foot bath at a pedicure spa.

- $50,000 mediated settlement for real estate salesperson with neck, back injuries and dizziness/vertigo problems after rear-end collision contributing to end decades-long ski patrol career.

- Policy limits settlement and Personal Injury Protection (PIP) subrogation waiver for college student rear-ended at high speed.

• Estate planning projects

- Successfully completed dozens of estate plans including credit trust wills, durable powers of attorney and medical directives to physicians for numerous clients/their estates taking into consideration the federal estate tax threshold and Washington state estate tax levels.

- Example is probate of $3 million estate of married dentist successfully completed this year, 2011.

- Probate of estate of married soldiers returning from Afghanistan who, tragically, were killed back in United States.

• Probate litigation matters

- Successful resolution during mediation of probate issues in estate exceeding $4 million with disproportionate division between beneficiaries.

- Successful resolution through negotiation of division of estate between family members and step-mother.

• Business disputes

- Successful resolution with mediation of property division after dissolution of partnership between Russians living in Seattle, Moscow and Portland, Ore.

- Copyright dispute re: art figurines imported from China into California and Washington. Transferred case to California copyright litigation law firm.

- Interpreted numerous covenants not to compete, severance agreements for executives leaving their employer for a new company or for retirement.

- Successful resolution of construction dispute between builder and owners.

• Medical malpractice defense cases (with 2 previous defense law firms)

- Co-defense counsel on case involving settlement over $2 million for toddler who developed brain damage after routine tonsillectomy surgery.

- Successful resolution for anesthesiologist after claimed intravascular injection with epidural anesthetic provided to mother during delivery possibly caused seizures to newborn.

- Successful jury trial defense of dentist allegedly damaging all 4 of patient’s upper front teeth, all of which were extracted after dental care.

- Co-defense counsel on case involving settlement for allegedly failing timely to diagnose cervical cancer (settlement confidential).

- Successful defense of orthopedic surgeon when foot surgery patient had post-operative infection.


• Settlement Guardian ad Litem work

- Over 50+ settlement guardian ad litem cases (Examples include wrongful death medical malpractice settlement over $800,000; severe injuries to elderly lady rear-ended causing her move to nursing facility, $400,000;
$101,000 settlement for toddler whose finger was severed in machine).

• Arbitrator for Mandatory Arbitration cases (approximately 2 dozen cases)

• Appellate Court Case: Negron v. Snoqualmie Valley Hospital and Overlake
Hospital, 86 Wn. App. 579, 936 P.2d 55 (1997).