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Kornfeld, Trudell, Bowen
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3724 Lake Washington Blvd. N.E
Kirkland, WA 98033
Phone: (425) 893-8989
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Your client is driving a school bus and is injured by another driver. Your client is injured but the negligent driver’s insurance company will not pay fair compensation. Suit is filed and your prepare for trial. Allstate offers a measly $6,000 and your medical specials are $16,000 and there is $1,200 in wage loss. Your [...]
A high percentage of vehicles driven on the roadways of the State of Washington are uninsured or underinsured. What this means is that if you are a responsible Washington insured motorist, with liability and collision coverage, there are holes in your insurance coverage unless you include underinsured motorist cover (UM) as part of your policy. Without [...]
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 [...]
Debunking a myth: an epidemic of medical malpractice, not of malpractice lawsuits By Patricia Greenstreet Special to The Times AS we reach for the dream of health care for all, we need to focus our reform energies on improving patient safety. Preventing medical errors will lower health-care costs, reduce doctors’ insurance premiums and protect patients. [...]
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 [...]
A 48 year old sheet metal worker on the job at a client’s warehouse was trying to access a suspended heating unit from the 25 foot ceiling to repair and service the same when a man made basket, sitting on the forks of a fork lift, was raised into the air by workers at the [...]
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 [...]