Alden v. Northwestern Mutual
Practice Area: Insurance
Date: Sep 21, 2011
Outcome: $450,000
Description: Wrongful denial of disability benefits
Category: Case Results
Streeter v. State Farm
Practice Area: Insurance
Date: Oct 10, 2016
Outcome: $375,000
Description: Client was injured in an auto accident. After settling with the other driver for their policy limits, Client made an Underinsured Motorist Claim with her own insurance policy. This claim was denied due to client’s insurance agents having failed to purchase the correct level of coverage, and having misrepresented this fact at the time the policy was purchased.
CEO v. Local Credit Union
Practice Area: Employment and labor
Date: Dec 01, 2014
Outcome: $355,000 Settlement
Description: Woman CEO of a local credit union was fired after complaining of inappropriate conduct, sexual and gender discrimination by certain members of the credit union Board of Directors. The firing was defended based on allegations that the CEO had herself engaged in misconduct and created a toxic work environment.
Svendsen v. United States
Practice Area: Medical malpractice
Date: Jul 18, 2016
Outcome: $250,000
Description: Client’s mother died of cervical cancer due to the failure of her doctors at a federally funded clinic to perform appropriate and timely Pap smears over a 7 year period. The U.S. denied negligence, and denied that the cancer was cervical in nature, and therefore would not have been detected even if testing had been done.
Green v. 3600 Westwind LLC
Practice Area: Personal injury
Date: Jan 11, 2016
Outcome: $217,500
Description: Defective and dangerous sidewalk outside of business caused client to trip, fall and shatter her arm. Liability was disputed, and the client was blamed from not seeing the defect in the sidewalk. Settlement reached prior to trial.