Over $1,000,000 Cases
SKWC has been busy these past seven years, winning cases worth at least $1 million and up for our clients. Click here to see a representative list.
Brown v. Yamaha, verdict for $10,000,000 in Grays Harbor County Superior Court, 1983. For 11 years it stood as the largest personal injury verdict in the state and still stands as on of the largest personal injury jury awards in Washington State court history. Product liability case for failure to provide a kill switch. Fifteen-year-old plaintiff rendered a spastic quadriplegic.
Hipps v. Grays Harbor County, $1,150,000 settlement in 1986. Defect in roadway design and maintenance. Resulted in traumatic brain injury.
Fraser v. Beutel, verdict for $6,149,641.34 in Kittitas County Superior Court, 1987. The largest personal injury jury award in the history of the County. Alcohol over-serving and negligent entrustment of a vehicle. Young mother suffered a severe head injury. $1,702,641 settlement from two of four defendants for a young woman hit by a drunk driver who had been over-served in a cocktail lounge and a liquor store.
Denny v. Houghton Distributing, $1,250,000 settlement in 1990 for paralysis from an auto collision after mini-mart sold beer to minors.
Kuoppamaki v. Epsilon Gamma Foundation, $1,500,000 settlement in 1990 for paralysis from fraternity rush function diving event.
Dussault v. Midcentury Insurance Co., $2,825,000 settlement in 1992 for bad faith of an insurance company arising out of an auto collision resulting in a severe closed-head injury.
Cutshaw v. Weyerhaeuser, verdict for 22 representative plaintiffs that equated to $7,400,000 for all 241 plaintiffs in Grays Harbor County Superior Court, 1993. Toxic tort claim for neighborhood exposure to sulfur gases from pulp mill wastewater treatment ponds.
Moore v. International Harvester, $2,700,000 settlement in 1993 in a product liability case for burns to a 19-year-old young man.
Barker and Coleman v. Teco, Dana and Columbia Body and Equipment, $2,450,000 settlement in 1994 for failure of a hydraulic aerial-lift used by P.U.D. workers.
Greene v. Pierce County, jury verdict for $5,466,878.23 in Pierce County Superior Court, 1994. Second largest personal injury jury verdict in the history of the County at the time. Highway design case for failure to have a stop sign at a railroad crossing. Plaintiff suffered a traumatic brain injury and was blinded in the crash.
