On Thursday, August 24, 2023, a Pierce County jury returned a $21 million verdict in favor of Dearie Law Group client Cristina Anderson. The jury’s verdict is in addition to an undisclosed seven-figure settlement with the City of Sumner that was reached prior to trial for alleged negligent roadway design.
Throughout the legal process, Raymond J. Dearie, Jr. and Drew V. Lombardi served as counsel to Cristina Anderson, a loving mother and former English as a Second Language Teacher.
Read MoreRay Dearie, Founding Attorney of the Dearie Law Group, earned the #17 verdict in 2022 per TopVerdict.com’s annual listing of the top 50 verdicts in Washington State.
Read MoreA jury awarded two teenage girls $8 million Wednesday, settling a lawsuit they filed in Whatcom County against the state Department of Social and Health Services after suffering years of sexual abuse in their foster home.
Read MoreThe victim of a Monroe cop’s abuse alleges state and school officials failed to report, despite warning signs.
Read MoreProsecutors want to be able to argue that the girl who was abused shares some responsibility for the actions.
Read MoreA settlement has been reached between King County and the family of Christopher Sean Harris, the Edmonds man who suffered a catastrophic brain injury in May 2009 when he was shoved into a wall by a sheriff’s deputy.
Read MoreA Pierce County jury last week awarded a woman $1.27 million following a civil trial of a former Kitsap County Sheriff’s deputy convicted of third-degree child molestation in 2003, according to court documents in the case.
Read MoreThe Court of Appeals has ruled that a lawsuit against King County, filed by a man who was injured in a Ballard bus stop, should go to trial.
Read MoreKing County has agreed to pay $7 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a woman who was severely injured when a Metro Transit supervisor’s van struck her while she was riding a Vespa motor scooter to work on Seattle’s Capitol Hill
Read MoreA Whatcom County jury determined the state Department of Social and Health Services should pay two girls $8 million for placing them in a foster home with a known child molester who sexually abused them for years.
Read MoreA judge ordered Kitsap County on Monday to pay a woman currently suing the county $67,000 for violating the state’s public records law.
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