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.

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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.

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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.

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