Drunk Driving Injury Attorneys in Kirkland

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.

John and Jane Doe v. HMO facility: The health care provider failed to diagnosis an intracranial aneurysm which ruptured and caused permanent brain damage to a 54 year old mother, grandmother and house wife. She will never work again and need care 24/7.

Jon Doe v. John Doe Entity: A young adolescent was injured in a playful accident and presented to the emergency department at a hospital. X-rays were read as negative by PA. The child was sent home and allowed to walk on foot causing post-traumatic arthritis and eventually 4 joint fusion in the foot.

Our client’s young son fell into an open septic tank and died on the property they rented. The landlord failed to warn them about the extreme hazard, and, instead, chose to save a little bit of money by not buying a proper septic tank cover.

Framer falls through a hole in a roof not covered by contractor and receives $175,000. A framer fell through a hole in the roof when framing a new house and suffered low back and leg injuries on a job in Pierce County. Mr. Kornfeld represented him and secured a settlement for the client without litigation.

Jane Doe v. Health Care Center (Superior Court – confidentiality settlement) Patient suffered from horrific headaches, nausea, vomiting, blurred and double vision–was told she had the flu. Over several weeks no imaging studies were ordered of the patient’s brain to rule out an intracranial bleed or subarachnoid hemorrhage.

A sheet metal and HVAC worker with the help of a spinal cord injury attorney, Rob Kornfeld, settled a construction fall injury when he was thrown from a forklift used as a man-lift in a warehouse operation provided by another. This resulted in spinal fractures of the low back, and spinal cord injury noted by hyper-reflexia on clinical exam.

Rob Kornfeld of Kornfeld, Trudell, Bowen and Lingenbrink, PLCC successfully represented the estate of an deceased cable installer and his surviving wife and two children as a Seattle wrongful death settlement lawyer, as well as a surviving coworker in a contentious multiparty litigated matter which settled on the first day of trial, October 11, 2010.

Plaintiff was rear-ended and the Defendant was arrested for DUI. Plaintiff sustained a L5-S1 central disc protrusion and annular tear as well as neck and other back injuries and headaches. She has not fully recovered and continues to experience pain that is aggravated by day to day activities.