Paralysis Attorney in Kirkland

Eye Injury at school to boy in gym class. A 16 year old boy lost a great deal of his vision in 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.

Gutierrez v. Marumanji, et. al. (Lewis Co. Superior Court ): During labor and delivery of baby Armondo, the attending hospital and doctor failed to recognize that the baby was in fetal distress and deliver the baby sooner. To compound the neurological damage to the baby during the labor and delivery, the baby was severely burned when a hospital nurse improperly used a heating pad. Five years later, the child remains deeply scarred on his back.

Wallace v. Sajner, et al, (Case No. : CV 98-11789- Arizona): A pedestrian hitchhiker from Phoenix, Arizona was struck by a vehicle going through an intersection as he was crossing the roadway to pick up some metal debris in the road.

Jane Doe v. Hospital and Dr. Radiologist (confidentiality) A doctor and hospital agreed to pay $1,900,000 and a health insurer agreed to waive recovery of subrogation reimbursement of $462,000 as a result of a radiologist’s failure to correctly read a MRI which, if correctly read in accordance with the standard of care, would have shown a posterior communicating aneurysm and which was treatable.

The Estate of Jane Doe v. Dr . Anesthesiologist: A patient with obvious facial and neck deformities went in for a routine D & C. Because the patient was overly sedated, the doctor was unable to timely awaken the patient from the paralytic drugs after she was unable to intubate and establish an airway in a timely fashion. As a result, the patient suffered severe hypoxia and brain damage and died one week later.

One of our clients sustained serious injuries after a negligent driver blew passed a red light in Shoreline, causing a T-bone collision with the client’s vehicle.

A client who had pre-existing anxiety was in two car crashes in 2015 and 2018 and suffered a concussion and spinal injuries in the first with increase in his PTSD and anxiety. He was improving and then was in a second MVA and suffered an aggravation and worsening of the PTSD and anxiety from the first MVA and has not returned to baseline. We were successful in recovering $235,000 for him from both drivers’ insurance and his own underinsured motorist insurance.

The Estate of Jane Doe v. Hospital: A retired patient went in for heart surgery and removal of an intra-aortic balloon pump from her femoral artery in her leg. After the IABP was removed, the client bled internally. The bleed was not timely diagnosed post-surgery and the patient bled to death.

The defendant driver failed to stop at stop sign and collided with Plaintiff’s car. Plaintiff’s car was totaled. She sustained neck, back and bilateral shoulder injuries.