Posted by Unknown | Aug 31, 2021 |
An insured defendant's ability to independently negotiate a settlement where its insurer declines to settle is well established. This involves the insured defendant entering into a settlement agreement with the plaintiff in exchange for a covenant not to execute the judgment against the defendant...
Posted by Unknown | Jun 30, 2021 |
This dispute involved a slip and fall accident between Betsy Johnson and the State of Washington Liquor and Cannabis Board (“WSLCB”). Johnson fell in the entryway of a WSLCB tore on a wet and rainy day in June 2011. Traditionally, under Washington law, “[t]he plain tiff in a slip and fall case ha...
Posted by Unknown | May 20, 2021 |
Single Treatment of Mentally Disturbed Patient Insufficient to Create Duty
to Control Conduct.
Division One of the Court of Appeals handed down another opinion on February 8, 2021 which involved a tragic set of facts. Zachary Konicke ended his relationship with his wife in California in...
Posted by Grant M. Elder | Apr 15, 2021 |
Estate of Jacob Thompson, et al. v. Portland Adventist Medical Center, 309 Or App 118 (2021)
for the estate of her son, Jacob Thompson, and Portland Adventist Medical Center (“Portland Adventist”). In the early morning of August 6, 2012, four-day-old Jacob Thompson accidentally suffocated u...
Posted by Unknown | Mar 16, 2021 |
Abacus Fine Carpentry, LLC v. Vivian H. Wilson and Russel D. Wilson
This opinion out of Division One of the Washington Court of Appeals arose out of a dispute between Abacus Fine Carpentry, LLC (“Abacus”) and Vivian and Russel Wilson. (Not that Russell Wilson.) In April 2016, the Wilsons hired A...
Posted by Jennifer L. Crow | Feb 01, 2021 |
In a recent decision, the Oregon Court of Appeals determined a UIM claimant's comparative fault is central to the issue of liability and therefore a defendant can raise the issues and remain under the protection of the safe harbor.[1]
Under ORS 742.061 an insured can recover atto...