Last week, the State of Washington agreed to pay $15,000,000 to our clients, three sisters, J.P., R.P., and S.P., who were sexually abused at a foster home in Centralia, Washington in the 1990s. The settlement allows the State to avoid a 3-week jury trial scheduled to...
Washington State has agreed to pay $3.25 million for a young girl who suffered years of horrific physical and sexual abuse in what some are calling one the most egregious failures of the state’s child welfare system ever. The settlement follows years of work led by Pfau Cochran Vertetis Amala PLLC. attorneys Ian Bauer, Darrell L. Cochran, and Michael McNeil.
This week, we filed a lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Seattle alleging for our client who was sexually abused by three adults at St. John Catholic School in the 1980s. The survivor in the lawsuit, R.C., suffered sexual abuse by a priest, Father Edward Boyle, and...
Nagy Ibrahim will receive a $1,885,000 settlement in restitution for a dog attack by two adult, unaltered, male American Pit Bulls. Ibrahim alleged that this attack could have been avoided if a Tukwila Motel acted to remove the dogs from its premises and if King County Animal Control performed its duty of properly investigating a previously reported attack by these dogs at the same Motel. King County Animal Control and the Motel denied wrongdoing.
Landmark Decision Paves Path for Justice in Bankruptcies Involving the Boy Scouts of America and the Catholic Church WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, the United States Supreme Court ruled federal bankruptcy courts do not have the authority to force injured plaintiffs...
