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	<title>Seattle Personal Injury Attorney &#187; Washington Personal Injury Law</title>

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		<title>Court Dismisses Case for Improper Service of Summons and Complaint</title>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our law firm was not involved in the personal injury lawsuit described in this article. In a recent decision the Washington Court of Appeals considered an issue of service of a summons and complaint. [1] Proper service of the summons and complaint is a prerequisite to the court obtaining jurisdiction over a party, and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woman Claiming Injury Unsuccessfully Argues Appeal Without an Attorney</title>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 04:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our law firm was not involved in the personal injury lawsuit described in this article. A woman who fell and was in injured appealed the trial court results. She unsuccessfully argued her appeal without the assistance of an attorney. She injured her ankle when she slipped on a substance on the floor in a Safeway [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Auto Accident Injury Victim&#8217;s Default Judgment Set Aside</title>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our law firm was not involved in the personal injury lawsuit described in this article. A woman injured in a motor vehicle accident served the Washington Secretary of State because she was unable to locate the other driver to effect personal service.  The trial court entered a default judgment.  The court awarded $12,000 in general [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nursing Home Rape Victim’s Claim Gets New Life on Appeal</title>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our law firm did not participate in this case. The plaintiff, an elderly woman who suffered from severe dementia, was living in a nursing home and a male patient sexually assaulted her. She died 13 months later without ever being able to describe the assault or its effect on her. She sued the nursing home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Service of Pleadings on Babysitter Leads to Dismissal of Injury Claim</title>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our law firm was not involved in this case. The Washington Court of Appeals rendered a decision in an injury case in which the the process server served the initial pleadings on the babysitter, rather than the defendant who had allegedly caused injury to the plaintiff.[1] Before the injured party’s attorney discovered the error the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Supreme Court Rules On Judicial Immunity</title>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Seattle Personal Injury Lawyer Scott Eller Last month the Washington Supreme Court issued a decision in a case in which the Court considered an issue of judicial immunity.[1] A sheriff deputy escorted an inmate from a courtroom to the jail on the instructions of the judge.  She did not handcuff the inmate.  The inmate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Courts Reject Injury Attorney’s Fees as too High</title>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Seattle Personal Injury Lawyer Scott Eller A recent Court of Appeals decision upheld the trial court&#8217;s ruling that attorney fees requested by an injury attorney were unreasonable.[1] The case involved the required court approval of settlements of claims of minors.  For one of the two minors’ claims the Settlement Guardian Ad Litem (SGAL) recommended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Case Law and Personal Injury</title>

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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is common in politics to criticize courts for “legislating from the bench”.  The argument is that courts have no role in formulating broad public policy. For most of the legal history of this and other English speaking countries in many areas of the law there was no legislation on point.  Instead, the courts developed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duty and Forseeability</title>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Negligence is &#8220;conduct which falls below the standard established by law for the protection of others against unreasonable risk&#8221;. [1] Duty and standard of care. The standard of conduct can arise from common law principles. It can also be prescribed by legislative enactment.[2] The court may adopt as the standard of conduct of a reasonable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proximate Cause</title>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Proximate cause includes both cause in fact and legal cause.[1] A cause in fact is a cause but for which the accident would not have happened.[2] A legal cause is a cause in fact that warrants legal liability as a matter of social policy.[3] A cause is &#8220;proximate&#8221; only if it is both a cause [...]]]></description>
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