Olympia Personal Injury Lawyer

Two of the Olympia High School students injured in the two vehicle crash in Lacy we previously blogged about here remain in serious condition at Harborview Medical Center. Another injured student remains in satisfactory condition at Harborview. Two other students sustained less serious injuries in the crash. One was released from a hospital on October 30th, another student remained in stable...

On Tuesday, six teenagers from the Olympia-area were involved in a car accident that sent three of these teenagers to Harborview Medical Center with life- threatening injuries. The Honda carrying the six teenagers, five females and one male, collided with a Sports Utility Vehicle heading in the opposite direction on Ruddle Road at about 3:45 p.m. Three of the teens were ejected from the car...

Many of you experienced damage to your houses during the wind storms last year. The majority of the losses occurred on December 14 or 15, 2006. Generally homeowners' insurance policies in Washington have a one year statute of limitations: that is, any claims against the homeowner's carrier must be brought within one year of the incident. Failure to bring a claim in time means it might be...

On October 9th a construction worker at Microsoft in Redmond was injured when a boom truck tipped over. The Department of Labor & Industries, an agency designed to protect and advocate for workers, will do an investigation as to the cause of the accident. It will focus on the cause of the accident and what the general contractor could have done to make the construction site safer for not only...

A lot of people think that they can't recover if they're not wearing their seat belt in a motor vehicle accident. Fortunately, that common belief is incorrect. A recent story in The Olympian details an accident where a driver failed to negotiate a turn, causing his car to leave the highway, go through a chain-link fence and hit a tree. According to the State Patrol, neither the driver nor...

Gyms are notorious for making their members sign "releases". So are sports leagues and places that rent recreational equipment. But these releases don't provide immunity for all injuries. In fact, they only provide immunity for injuries incurred under a narrow set of circumstances. This point was illustrated by the Alaska Supreme Court in the case of Moore v. Hartley Motors. It held that...

While the injuries and deaths of cruise passengers is not a particularly fond topic of cruise companies, procedures must be in place for if a passengers falls ill or dies while on board. Almost all ships have doctors and nurses on board, and many ships also have an area that can serve as a morgue. However, there is rarely any counseling available on board for the grieving family of the deceased...

A $2.5 million dollar settlement was reached on Tuesday to settle the claims of a mentally-ill woman who was raped while she was a patient at Eastern State Hospital in 2004.$1.5 million of that settlement will go towards the victim's future care, an amount declared "reasonable" by Jerry Cartwright, the assistant attorney general who represented the state, considering the amount of care the woman...

On Saturday a Bellingham man, 20 years of age, was injured when his motorcycle collided with an oncoming vehicle. The injured man was transported to St. Joseph Hospital, with injuries that police declared not life-threatening. Witnesses to the motorcycle collision said that the injured man and another motorcyclist had been speeding and passing cars in an aggressive manner directly before the...

Two Bellingham bars are allegedly partly to blame for the death of Steven Rhone, Jr., 19, in a June 1 hit and run accident. Rhone was hit by a drunk driver, Damien Mackay (his girlfriend, Amanda Littrell was also in the car) and left to die in the street, according to police. Mackay and Littrell were later arrested.Mackay and Littrell were reportedly over-served at two Bellingham bars, the...