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Complex cases and challenging trials fuel our desire to bring justice to clients. We have fought for injured plaintiffs in cases against auto makers, state and local governments, medical facilities and providers, product manufacturers, individuals and more. 

Throughout the legal process, we work with clients at their comfort level. We encourage them to ask questions, keep in touch and be as involved in their case as they'd like to be. At our firm, building relationships is as important as the case results.

Click on the practice areas at left to learn more about our work on plaintiffs' behalf.

Recent Verdicts & Settlements

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Government Liability

The Lummi Nation v. Engineering Firm

$4.25 million settlement

Plaintiff's co-counsel: Michael E. Withey, Paul L. Stritmatter, Brad J. Moore

After an engineering company uncovered 28 intact ancestral remains and took them out of state without notifying the Lummi tribe, the tribe asked our firm to bring an action. They wanted to recover the significant costs they had expended to recover and rebury those remains as well as others that had been excavated off the site to a landfill. Our legal team, headed by Mike Withey, Paul Stritmatter and Brad Moore, won a signifcant legal ruling that the engineering firm had violated the Indian Graves and Records Act. The decision paved the way for a $4,250,000 settlement for the tribe and more than 1,230 tribal members.

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Product Defect

Doe’s Estate v. XYZ Tire Company

$1.7 million settlement

Plaintiff’s counsel: Paul W. Whelan, Peter O’Neil

A manufacturing defect in an oversized knobby tire caused a pickup truck crash that ended the life of a passenger, a 20-year-old promising professional baseball player. Investigative work by the plaintiff’s counsel – and the young man’s father – helped illuminate a history of manufacturing defects in those particular tires. The man’s family settled at mediation in September 2003.

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Medical Negligence

Crawford Estate v. Hospital and Doctor

$1 million settlement

Plaintiff’s counsel: Kevin Coluccio, Paul W. Whelan

An 11-month-old baby died when medical personnel failed to follow up on a radiology report recommending further studies that would have shown a duplication cyst of the small bowel. The baby suffered a bowel perforation at the cyst, resulting in peritonitis and death.