Schroeter Goldmark & Bender

A King County jury awarded Sherrie Holdsworth $16,674,097 against Scapa Waycross after her husband Kevan, a Camas paper mill worker, died of mesothelioma caused by the company's asbestos-containing dryer felts, the largest asbestos verdict in King County history.

The family of Jackson Reavis, 22, killed at a Wedgwood intersection Seattle knew was dangerous, settled with the City for $6.5 million after evidence showed the City had already allocated funding for protective left-turn signals but abandoned the project before the fatal crash.

The family of Giovonn Joseph-McDade, an unarmed 20-year-old Black man shot and killed by a Kent Police officer in 2017 following a traffic stop for expired registration, settled their federal civil-rights and wrongful-death lawsuit against the City of Kent for $4.4 million in April 2021.

A Multnomah County jury found the Oregon Department of Human Services liable for a child's catastrophic brain injury after a hospital's hotline report of suspected abuse was mishandled and the child was returned home, where he suffered suboxone poisoning and severe abuse nine days later, awarding $29 million that Oregon's tort claims cap reduces to $4.2 million.

A King County jury awarded $3,263,230 to Linda O'Brien, a stage-4 breast cancer survivor who was fired by her dental-clinic employer two days after requesting to work from home while contagious with shingles.

Warren Wright, a contract foreman, was exposed to asbestos insulation at ExxonMobil's Ferndale, Washington refinery in 1979 and died of mesothelioma in 2015. His son sued, and a jury found ExxonMobil liable and awarded $4 million in 2019. After credits for settlements by other defendants, judgment was entered for $2.27 million. The Washington Supreme Court affirmed on August 3, 2023.