Washington Personal Injury Blog | Law Offices of Robert Kornfeld

Two women bus drivers agreed with an east King County School District to settle their cases against the District for $425,000. The case settled weeks prior to trial. Following an all day and early evening mediation in Kirkland, Wa., at the law firm which represented the two longtime school bus driving employees of the District, [...]

Imagine a panel of 35 jurors responding to the question: How many of you believe that pain and suffering should “not” be compensable damages in a personal injury case? Imagine that over one half of the prospective jurors raise their hands. Imagine you are successful in striking a few for cause. But there are 6 [...]

Robert Kornfeld was named one of Seattle’s top Personal Injury Lawyers in the July 2010 edition of the Seattle Met magazine.

Intracranial Aneurysms and other cognitive injuries: For those of you who have a loved one or friend who has experienced what it is like to suffer a traumatic brain injury, whether it’s from a sentinel bleed incidental to a leaking or ruptured aneurysm or whether it’s from a traumatic event, e.g. a car accident or [...]

The case of Alex Salas v. High Tec Erectors was argued Monday November 16, 2009 in the Supreme Court of the State of Washington. This case involved the issue of whether the trial judge abused his discretion when he allowed the jury to hear evidence that Alex was an undocumented worker. This case will have [...]

A young man in his 30′s was injured in a head on car crash which resulted in discovery of Syringemelia aka/Syrinx. The trauma from this collision lit up an underlying congenital condition which he did not know he had. As an athlete, basketball player and husband, ready to start a family, and just recently having [...]

A sheet metal and HVAC worker settled his construction fall injury when he was thrown from a fork lift used as a manlift by a warehouse operator. At the time the manlift injury, the property owner who owned and operated the fork lift, violated a number of WISHA regulations. The negligence in operation of an [...]

In settlement of a medical negligence case, when the victim/client receives on DSHS funds to assist them in expenses of daily living, receceipt of settlement money over $2,000 will disqualify the client from entitlement benefits from Medicaid. A special needs trust is a means to continue to receive DSHS benefits without jeopardizing termination of those benefits when an injured person settles a [...]

Tort Reform is unfortunately rearing its ugly head once again. The fears of medical malpractice, despite the lack of any evidence to show that this fear has any ring of truth to it, has become a political rallying cry for the Obama administration in hopes of passing the health care reform bill.  The fear of [...]

Washington state has a backward wrongful death law which prohibits a parent from recovering damages,  in tort, for another’s neligence which causes the wrongful death of an adult child. This means if a parent lose a child, who is 18 or more years of age, there is no cause of action for recovery of  general [...]