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, [...]

A 50 + year old lady, with a twenty (20) year history of working for Boeing, was seriously injured when her car was forced off the roadway and it road down an embankment pinning her in the vehicle. As it turned out, she fractured her ankle and was facing a three joint fusion in her [...]

An ex Seattle public school football star was injured in a head on collision when a middle age woman cross the center line striking this past client. The woman was killed and the client ( John Doe ) was seriously injured resulting in a partial knee replacement. John Doe had a replacement of his knee [...]

In May 2007 two young men, Steve and David, were operating a boom lift near power lines at the Wild Waves theme park in Federal Way, Wa. One was only 20 and the other 27, neither of whom knew about the dangers of utility pole distribution lines. At about high noon on this fateful day [...]

I was in the Denver airport a few weeks ago lamenting some changes in my life and picked up a book about “grief” written by two PhD’s in the Phoenix Scottsdale area. Their thesis in a nutshell was: Bad things happen to good people….once you are born into this world, the same can and will [...]

Burn injuries are traumatic for the patient as they are for his family. The after care and repeated cleansing of the burn site is horrifically painful and trying on the injured patient. Whether the patient was scarred or burned because of exposure to electrical currents or power lines, chemicals, fire or whatever, the results for [...]

Neck injuries are most common in car accidents. But have you ever thought about the consequences of a cervical strain injury to someone who has a disability and who relies on his neck for his independence? Recently I had the pleasure of representing a 75 year old man who suffered a cervical strain in a [...]