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Personal Injury Law

Seattle Injury Blog

News and information on dangerous drugs, wrongful death, nursing home abuse, car accidents, and workplace accidents in Washington state.
By Kirk Bernard, Esq.

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Mount Vernon Motorcycle Accident Leaves Arlington Woman Dead

Posted on July 07, 2008
A 37 year old Arlington woman died on Saturday morning, after her motorcycle collided with a van near Mount Vernon on Highway 536. The woman was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after the accident and later died. This is according to a State Patrol memo...

$100 Million Awarded to Troy, Michigan Family in Wrongful Death Suit

Posted on July 01, 2008
A family was awarded $100 million in a wrongful death suit -- the largest settlement known for a wrongful death case in Michigan. The settlement stemmed from the 2005 murder of 20-year-old girl in Troy, Michigan. At Bernard Law Group, we handle wrongful death lawsuits in Washington State every day...

PUD Line Truck Accident Injures Woman

Posted on June 27, 2008
A three vehicle crash near Snohomish Tuesday morning occurred. Following the crash involving a PUD line truck, a woman was airlifted to a Seattle hospital after the accident. Snohomish County Fire District 4 Battalion Chief John Hinchcliff said that the accident occurred at approximately 7:30 a...

Woman Arrested After Man Dies in Crash

Posted on June 20, 2008
The life of a man was claimed in a head-on crash on Highway 12 about five miles south of Porter, Washington, and a woman has been arrested for investigation of vehicular homicide related to the case. At Bernard Law Group, we handle personal injury lawsuits that are the results of car accidents in Washington State every day...

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Increase in lawsuits regarding Plastic Bottles

Posted on June 17, 2008
There has been an increase of legislation and lawsuits involving plastic water bottles across the country. In the suits, the plaintiffs claim that toxic chemical in plastic bottles could make people sick. The chemical in question is known as bisphenol A (BPA), and it is found in polycarbonate bottles, CDs, DVDs and dental sealants...

Fire victims billed $420,000 by Farmer?s Insurance

Posted on June 11, 2008
A local family was robbed of nearly everything by a fire, and then a big insurance company tried to take the rest plus even more, sending the family a $420,000 bill. Chris Christoffersen and her daughter Melissa woke up to devastation last October. Their apartment complex was engulfed in flames...

DSHS and day-care centers reach deal over suits

Posted on June 09, 2008
Two long running civil rights lawsuits have reached a tentative settlement. The suits were brought by Latino-owned day-care centers in Mattawa, in Eastern Washington, against the state Department of Social and Health Services over unauthorized searches and seizures of property...

Lacey car crash leaves teen girl dead

Posted on June 05, 2008
An 18-year-old girl who was slated to graduate from high school in one week, died in a Lacey car crash over the weekend. According to police, she was driving drunk. Mason County Sheriff's Deputies say they think the teen was speeding and had been drinking early Saturday morning when she lost control of her Suzuki Sidekick and crashed into a tree...

I-5 Traffic Snarl in Everett Due to Crash

Posted on June 02, 2008
A dramatic two-car accident on I-5 just north of the Highway 526 interchange in Everett on Thursday afternoon left two people with minor injuries. According to the Washington State Patrol, two trucks went off the freeway, took out 15 sections of concrete barrier and went down a 70-foot embankment...

Auto collision in Tukwila leaves one dead

Posted on May 28, 2008
Tukwila police reported that a 46-year-old man from Connecticut died Saturday morning after his sedan veered across traffic and was struck by an SUV. The auto accident happened around 10:50 a.m. in the 13500 block of Tukwila International Boulevard...

Teenage girl struck and killed by pickup in Lynnwood

Posted on May 26, 2008
Two teenage girls were hit by a pickup truck Friday night in Lynnwood, according to the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office. One girl died as a result of the accident. Sheriff's Capt. Kevin Prentiss said that a white Ford Ranger was heading east about 11:10 p...

Car hits pedestrian in Lynnwood

Posted on May 22, 2008
A woman who was struck by a car near the intersection of 188th Street SW and Highway 99 in Lynnwood was rushed to a Seattle hospital after the pedestrian accident, officials said. The crash occurred just before 10 a.m. According to Marybeth O?Leary, a Lynnwood fire spokeswoman, officials have not yet determined how the woman, who is described in her 30s, ended up in the road and was ultimately hit...

Road closed after crash Tuesday morning

Posted on May 20, 2008
An automobile driver was arrested by Seattle police after driving into a construction site early Tuesday. Just before 12:45a.m., the automobile crash occured in the 10100 block of Holman Road Northwest, Seattle police reported. According to witnesses, the driver was speeding when he hit a truck and then a light tower used by crews working at the site...

Plane crashes into Lake Chelan; 2 dead

Posted on May 18, 2008
Two people died on Saturday when their float plane crashed into Lake Chelan near the remote resort community of Stehekin in the North Cascades. The plane was carrying 5 people total. A charter flight from Chelan Airways, the single-engine DeHavilland Beaver had taken off from the town of Chelan about 4:30 p...

Car in water, passenger dead, after Tacoma chase

Posted on May 13, 2008
A man from Tacoma has been accused of driving a stolen car into the water at a marina, leaving his passenger dead following the Washington auto accident.. On Saturday, just before 10 p.m. a Tacoma police officer determined a car had been stolen by running the license plate, said Officer Mark Fulghum...

Pickup driver killed in collision with bus

Posted on May 09, 2008
A fatal bus crash in which a pickup collided with a school bus in Spanaway is being investigated by Pierce County sheriff's deputies. According to investigators, the truck apparently slammed head-on into the bus at 224th Street East and 50th Avenue East, said sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer...

Skateboarder?s death results in two-year sentence for driver responsible

Posted on May 08, 2008
A man from Everett was sentenced to two years in prison for striking and killing a 12 year old skateboarder. On the night of August 21st, 2006, Justin Freeman was skateboarding with friends in Everett. Kasey Cline, 28, was driving a pickup when he struck and killed Freeman...

Driver left dead in 2 car auto crash

Posted on May 05, 2008
Two women were injured, and one man died on Sunday in a Seattle Auto Accident when a sports car hit a sedan in the 2500 block of Westlake Avenue North in Seattle. Mark Jamieson, Seattle police spokesman, said that police were called to the area right before 5pm...

Renton couple killed in auto crash

Posted on May 02, 2008
A one-car crash left a young couple in Renton dead Tuesday night, and police said speed is likely to blame. A 22-year-old man and his 21-year-old girlfriend, both from Renton, were driving on the 11200 block of Southeast 162nd Street shortly after 10 p...

Eastside crash causes death of Kirkland man

Posted on May 01, 2008
A crash killed a 30-year-old Kirkland man early this morning who lost control of his car on Avondale Road Northeast, and struck several trees and landed on the side of the road. Police said that speed, and alcohol, were definitely to blame for the seattle automobile accidents...

Two students from PLU die in car accident

Posted on April 28, 2008
Two Pacific Lutheran University students died in a fiery car crash near Brewster, in Eastern Washington, Friday night. The two were also close friends. The driver, from Tonasket, Washington, swerved and hit another car head. His twin brother, who is a student at the University of Puget Sound, was critically injured in the accident...

Three car pileup near Mill Creek leaves 5 injured

Posted on April 25, 2008
An automobile accident that blocked 132nd street near Mill creek left a seriously injured teen trapped in the wreckage of a car for nearly an hour Tuesday. The cause of the three-car crash is still being determined, Mill Creek police spokeswoman Robin Swanson said...

Big rig crash leaves Everett man dead

Posted on April 22, 2008
An Everett man died when two big trucks smashed into each other on Highway 526 early Friday morning. Everett police Sgt. Robert Goetz said that the crash happened about 4:15am. A tractor-trailer heading east was pulling through the intersection at Everett Mall Way onto Highway 527 when it apparently was hit broadside by a northbound rig...

$850,000 paid by state in fatal crash

Posted on April 21, 2008
According to Seattletimes.com, the State of Washington has agreed to pay $850,000 to the estate of a woman who died four years ago in a fatal traffic collision with a man who was on Department of Corrections (DOC) community supervision. Seattle police say that Gloria Daquep, 55, was killed April 24th, 2004, when Charles W...

Lakewood crash leaves two dead

Posted on April 21, 2008
A man and a woman from Lakewood were killed and three others injured when a Ferrari hit a shuttle bus in an auto accident in Lakewood. The two people in the Ferrari were killed in the crash. Lt. Dave Guttu, of the Lakewood police, said the driver and passenger in the Ferrari died at the scene of the automobile accident on Sunday afternoon...

Highway 202 crash in Redmond leaves one dead

Posted on April 14, 2008
A two-car collision killed a man and injured another Monday afternoon in Redmond. Rain and wet conditions likely contributed to this Washignton state highway accident. The driver of a Honda was driving west on Highway 202 at Sahalee Way Northeast. According to Keith Trowbridge, State Patrol spokesman, he then drove into standing water and lost control of his car...

Cyclist hit by truck miraculously survives

Posted on April 11, 2008
A 60-year-old man was cycling around Bainbridge Island, riding down Highway 305, when he merged into the left turn-lane. He remembers a vehicle coming up quickly to the left, behind him. "As a biker knows, when you see something like that it's a really bad thing...

Two injured in Lakewood crash

Posted on April 04, 2008
A head-on automobile crash in Lakewood late Friday morning left at least two people seriously injured. According to Lakewood police, the cars collided just after 11 a.m. on Bridgeport Way SW near Seattle Avenue. Two people who were trapped inside the cars need to be extricated when medics arrived...

Apparent hit-and-run death investigated in Tulalip

Posted on April 03, 2008
A Marysville woman was hit and killed early Wednesday morning by an apparent hit-and-run driver. There was no information for Snohomish County sheriff?s detectives about the vehicle involved in the death. They spent several hours at the scene after the pedestrian accident, collecting evidence and taking measurements along the road...

Woman injured in Stanwood wreck

Posted on April 01, 2008
An 18-year-old woman sustained critical injuries in a car accident in downtown Stanwood on Thursday. She was taken to Skagit Valley Hospital. According to Herald.net, the two-car accident happened near the intersection of 88th Avenue NW and 271st Street NW about 3:30 p...

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