Who decides when a product is not safe enough for the public?
By Lisa Benedetti
Washington law uses the “ordinary user” test, which means a product is considered unsafe if it is more dangerous than an ordinary consumer would expect. Courts reject any “sophisticated purchaser” limitation, so the ordinary user includes...
The only time Stritmatter Law retreats… is when we go on a retreat
Coping With PTSD
By Andrew Ackley and Karen Koehler
It is incorrect to say that emotional injury is: subjective and all in your mind. Psychological injuries have a physiological basis. The amygdala located...
Moving Forward With Spinal Cord Injury
After a spinal cord injury, it can be hard to picture what the future looks like. Without question, there are major life changes ahead. But new technology, medical breakthroughs, and social support are helping victims of spinal cord injury more than...
Rules of the Road: Washington Grants New Protection to “Vulnerable Roadway Users”
By Daniel R. Laurence
I am an all-too-frequent motorist, and insufficiently frequent road cyclist, who enjoys the activity but not the fear and aggression that are all-too-regular effects when motorist impatience and cyclist entitlement...
Ride the Ducks settle appeal of the $123 Million Jury Verdict and 5 more cases
Stritmatter Law Firm: Press release
April 29, 2019
Seattle, Washington
Re: The 40 members of the Dinh Group, Moody Family, Leina Family and Ride the Ducks Settlement of $123 M Trial Verdict and Pending Litigation.
Today the appeal of the...
Ride the Ducks Deaths Help Spur State Legislature to Fix Wrongful Death Laws
By Karen Koehler
Our state’s Wrongful Death bill was completely overhauled today in a landslide vote by the legislature.
After five international students were killed in the Ride the Ducks Aurora Bridge crash, the community was upset to learn that the claims...
Ride the Ducks Case Stories: Part II
The worst mass transit disaster in Seattle history was unlike anything before it. An amphibious vehicle full of tourists broke an axle and rammed into a motor coach full of sightseeing international students. Three and half years later, 40 of the victims of the crash represented by Stritmatter Firm trial counsel obtained...
Ride the Ducks Case Stories: Part I
The worst mass transit disaster in Seattle history was unlike anything before it. An amphibious vehicle full of tourists broke an axle and rammed into a motor coach full of sightseeing international students. Three and half years later, 40 of the victims of the crash represented by Stritmatter Firm trial counsel obtained...
Seward v. State of Washington
Rarely, if ever, does the State admit that it was negligent in a dangerous highway design lawsuit. But in the case of then 15-year-old Skylar Seward who now suffers from quadriplegia, the State has done exactly that.