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About Richard Dykstra
Richard Dykstra has focused on insurance coverage and insurance company good faith claims handling for over 35 years and has been involved in many of the noteworthy Washington cases setting standards for insurer conduct. He represents policyholders including large and small businesses, law firms, and medical professionals. Richard was admitted in Washington state and federal courts in 1973 and Alaska in 1987.
He received his B.A. in History from the University of Washington in 1970 and his J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law in 1973. He is rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell and has been selected for Washington Super Lawyers annually since 2000 and for Best Lawyers in America from 2009 to 2025 in insurance law. He joined Friedman Rubin in 2011.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Friedman Rubin
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A King County jury awarded $857 million in December 2023 to seven people, five former students and two parent volunteers, who said they were sickened by PCBs leaking from light fixtures at the Sky Valley Education Center in Monroe, Washington. The verdict included $73 million in compensatory damages and $784 million in punitive damages against Monsanto and its successor Pharmacia. In April 2024 a King County judge cut the punitive award to $365 million under Missouri's statutory cap on punitive damages, reducing the total to $438 million. Monsanto appealed, and Bayer said in February 2026 that Monsanto had settled the remaining Sky Valley jury verdicts on confidential terms, so what was ultimately paid is not public.
A King County jury awarded $275 million to thirteen Sky Valley Education Center students and families who suffered neurological injuries from PCB-contaminated light fixtures manufactured by Monsanto.
A King County jury awarded three Monroe, Washington teachers $185 million after finding that PCBs manufactured by Monsanto leached from fluorescent light ballasts at their school and caused permanent neurological injuries.
A Clark County jury awarded retired Air Force veteran Michael Washington and his wife Josephine $104 million after finding that propofol manufacturers Teva Parenteral Medicines and Baxter Healthcare knowingly supplied oversized anesthetic vials that clinics routinely reused, spreading hepatitis C to patients.
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