Tacoma Personal Injury Lawyer

Sometimes accidents and injuries arise from a combination of factors--not just negligent driving. It's important not to overlook any potential cause in a serious injury accident.Two people were killed in a car accident in Thurston County early Sundy morning. According to the Washington State Patrol the 1997 Pontiac Grand Am was traveling northbound on SR 101 at about 1:30 a.m. when it veered to...

More and more people are driving with pets in their cars. That means more and more pets are being injured in motor vehicle accidents. A poodle riding in a pickup truck was seriously injured when a driver traveling the opposite direction on State Route 515 crossed the center line and hit the pickup head on. The pickup driver, a 48-year old woman from Kent, and her passenger, a 49-year old man...

The FDA approved new changes to Ortho Evra Contraceptive Transdermal Patch's label on Friday, January 18. The label will include the results of a study that found that users who use the birth control patch are at a higher risk of developing blood clots, or known as venous thromboembolism (VTE), than for women who use birth control pills.The study was conducted on women from 15-44 and...

It's one of the commuting cyclist's perils. You're riding on the shoulder past parked cars when all of a sudden someone opens their car door, leaving you the choice of (a) crashing into said door or (b) veering left into traffic. Quite the "Hobson's Choice" (that is, no choice at all).Did you ever wonder whether drivers have a legal duty to look before opening their doors? Well, they do. And...

On Christmas Eve Peter Pung, 18, was hit and killed by a drunk driver. Pung was driving on Golden Given Road East, a road in Tacoma, Washington, when a pickup blew through a stop sign and T-boned Pung's Honda. The driver of the pickup, Aaaron Wayne Bell, 26, crashed into Pung's car with such speed it drove the Honda's passenger-side door into Pung and crushed him against the driver's side...

On Christmas Eve a 35-year old man was killed and two men were critically injured in a car crash on West Valley Highway in Sumner, Washington. According to the police, the driver was speeding, lost control, crossed into oncoming traffic and then hit a tree. The driver was declared dead at the scene of the accident; the two passengers were transported to Harborview Medical Center. Alcohol was...

Personal injury cases are typically valued--by insurance adjusters, personal injury attorneys and juries--based on medical expenses. Oftentimes lost wages and, to a greater extent, opportunity cost, take a back seat. Should people who get hurt in accidents be compensated for the opportunities they miss because of someone else's negligence? On Monday, Brian Ebersole, former state legislator,...

I was looking through my email and found an alert from KIRO. It described an accident that happened on Friday involving a DOT truck. During the morning commute last Friday an SUV slammed into a Department of Transportation worker's truck on Interstate 5 in Fife. The collision killed the SUV driver, Roy P. Fuentes, and injured the 56-year-old State worker, David Ball. Ball was outside of...

On Tuesday, November 20, two planes collided in mid-air over Washington. One of the planes landed safely at an airstrip nearby and the other plane crashed into Commencement Bay.An officer from the Coast guard claimed that two people who crashed in the water were recovered by boaters, but their condition was not immediately known.The other plane did not crash, but landed at the Thun Field in...

A CSX freight train derailed on a bridge above the Anacostia River on Friday, November 9 and 10 of the 90 rail cars fell into the water. There were no injuries due to the accident.The train was parked with no passengers or crew aboard when another freight train ran into it. The Fire Department stated that the cause was unknown and that the National Transportation Safety Board would be...