About Dylan Cohon
Dylan R. Cohon is a partner at Swanson Gardner Meyers Cohon PLLC, concentrating his practice on medical malpractice, personal injury, and wrongful death cases. He earned his B.A. in Political Science magna cum laude from Western Washington University in 2004 and his Juris Doctor from Willamette University in 2007. Before joining SGMC in 2019, Cohon served as a senior partner at a defense firm representing Seattle-area hospitals, gaining direct insight into the strategies and arguments used by the defense in medical negligence litigation. Since joining SGMC, he has helped clients recover more than $100 million in compensation.
His cases involve surgical complications, radiological imaging errors, delayed diagnoses, and birth injuries. He is admitted to practice in Washington State courts and the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. Cohon has been recognized as a Washington Super Lawyer beginning in 2023 and as a Rising Star by Super Lawyers from 2016 through 2022. He is named to the National Trial Lawyers Association Top 40 Under 40 and is an Eagle Member of the Washington State Association for Justice.
Proven verdicts and settlements
Michael Trujillo, a 62-year-old electrician from Colorado, was diagnosed with ALS in 2017 and sought treatment at Seattle Stem Cell Center after seeing the clinic's online marketing. In April 2019 a physician at the clinic gave him a spinal injection without imaging guidance while he was taking a blood thinner, causing catastrophic bleeding and brain herniation, and he was pronounced dead the next day. A King County jury returned a unanimous $24 million verdict for his estate, his widow and their five adult children, finding that negligence in his care caused his death. The clinic's owner, Dr. Tami Meraglia, said she intends to appeal.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
