Washington Personal Injury Blog | Law Offices of Robert Kornfeld

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

Mild traumatic brain injuries can occur in the most unlikely ways. Often an injured person is the last to recognize that they have suffered a mild closed head injury. Typically the personal injury lawyer sees these type of injuries in motor vehicle collisions. Often the sequalae and signs of a head injury are not easily [...]

Robert Kornfeld is a Seattle area personal injury attorney whose practice includes construction injury accident claims for all workers on or off of the jobsite. Most often these injuries arise in the workplace in a construction setting. Sometimes on the job injuries occur which are not in construction but may involve serious injuries too. Mr. [...]