Stritmatter Kessler Koehler Moore

A King County jury awarded $123 million to 40 plaintiffs after five international students were killed and dozens injured when a Ride the Ducks amphibious vehicle suffered a catastrophic axle fracture on Seattle's Aurora Bridge in 2015.

A Pierce County jury awarded $44.7 million to an EMT and volunteer firefighter left with permanent injuries after an SUV driver turned left through an uncontrolled intersection and into his path, a verdict Washington courts later upheld in full.

Washington state paid $28 million to a young woman left quadriplegic after her car struck an unguarded overpass pillar on I-5 near DuPont, where WSDOT had funding and a plan to install a protective barrier but never completed the work.

King County paid its largest personal injury settlement on record after a 38-year-old mother of two was mauled by two dogs the county had repeatedly been warned about but failed to remove.

Stritmatter Kessler Koehler Moore secured a $10 million settlement from the City of Seattle on behalf of more than 50 protesters who were struck by blast balls, tear gas, and other crowd-control weapons deployed by Seattle Police Department officers during the May and June 2020 George Floyd demonstrations.

A King County jury on September 12, 2024 awarded $6 million to the family of Summer Taylor, a 24-year-old protester killed on Interstate 5 in Seattle in July 2020 when a driver went the wrong way up an exit ramp. The jury found the driver, Dawit Kelete, solely negligent. It found the State of Washington not negligent and found that Taylor bore no fault for being on the freeway.

A Grays Harbor County jury awarded more than $3.8 million to an electronics technician and his wife after a co-worker triggered an explosion inside a live, high-voltage Variable Frequency Drive cabinet without warning, leaving the technician with one of the most severe cases of tinnitus and hyperacusis his expert witness had ever evaluated.

The estate of Charleena Lyles, a pregnant Black mother of four fatally shot by Seattle police during a mental health crisis in 2017, settled its wrongful-death civil rights claim for $3.5 million after a state appellate court reversed a prior dismissal and reinstated the case for trial.

A Grant County jury found that Tracy Nessl shot and killed Timothy McNamara on Christmas Day 2014 at his home in Belize and awarded his children $3.327 million, reported as one of the largest civil verdicts in Grant County history.