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READ MORE October 15, 2025 | Legal Alert Timing Is Everything: The Dog Bite Case That Took a Bite Out of Procedural Rules By: Ashley Nagrodski
READ MORE June 2, 2025 | Legal Alert Timing Is Everything: The Dog Bite Case That Took a Bite Out of Procedural Rules By: Ashley Nagrodski
READ MORE May 28, 2025 | Legal Alert Washington Contractors: Foreseeable Risks Impose a Foreseeable Duty By: Brian Schiewe
READ MORE May 1, 2025 | Legal Alert Send Clear and Unambiguous Written Settlement Tenders or Face the Fees: Oregon Court of Appeals Rejects Ambiguous Email Settlement Offer as ‘Tender’ in ORS 20.080 Cases. By: Cliff Wilson
READ MORE August 19, 2024 | Legal Alert $10 Million Punitive Damages Award Violative of the U.S. Constitution By: Melanie Rose
READ MORE July 24, 2024 | Legal Alert The Term “Negligence” Is Not Required, but Probably Necessary to Shield Contracting Party from Liability By: Melanie Rose
READ MORE July 2, 2024 | Legal Alert When Must a University Protect a Student from Harm Inflicted by a Third Party? By: Brian Schiewe
READ MORE April 2, 2024 | Legal Alert The Washington State Supreme Court Rejects the Apex Doctrine By: Brian Schiewe
READ MORE February 22, 2024 | Legal Alert Plaintiff’s Preexisting Medical Condition Does Not Always Require The “Substantial Factor” Jury Instruction By: Josh Hayward
READ MORE January 3, 2024 | Legal Alert When is a Landowner Allowed to Delegate the Duty of Care to an Independent Contractor to Ensure Others’ Safety? By: Brian Schiewe
READ MORE October 10, 2023 | Legal Alert Can a Medical Professional be Liable to a Patient’s Caregiver? By: Melanie Gillette
READ MORE July 26, 2023 | Legal Alert Surprise Scope Changes: How a Resulting Loss Clause Can Bring Unexpected Damage Back into Coverage By: Firm Authorship
READ MORE June 8, 2023 | Legal Alert Don’t Walk on Thin Ice: The Defense of Implied Primary Assumption of the Risk May Render Unavailable in Snow and Ice Slip and Fall Cases By: Brian Schiewe
READ MORE May 25, 2023 | Legal Alert A Contractual Defect: Washington Supreme Court Rules Contractual Time-Limitation Provision Unenforceable in Construction Defect Case By: Brian Schiewe
READ MORE May 18, 2023 | Legal Alert Plead it or Weep: You Can’t Assert a New Theory of Liability in Response to a Motion for Summary Judgment By: Josh Hayward
READ MORE April 20, 2023 | Legal Alert Washington Supreme Court Examines the Use of Racial Bias in a Civil Jury Trial By: Joy Lee
READ MORE April 14, 2023 | Legal Alert The Action Accrues at Breach: The Oregon Court of Appeals Refuses to Apply the Discovery Rule to Breach of Contract Cases By: Michael Staskiews
READ MORE April 11, 2023 | Legal Alert Millay Preserved: Washington Court Rules No New Standard for Equitable Tolling By: Firm Authorship
READ MORE April 6, 2023 | Legal Alert The Court Needs Your Autograph: Washington Court Rules A Party Must Personally Sign Requests for Trial De Novo in Arbitration By: Firm Authorship
READ MORE February 1, 2023 | Legal Alert Oregon Court of Appeals Rules Special Relationship Required for Purely “Psychic Damages” in Negligence Claims By: Melanie Rose
READ MORE January 18, 2023 | Legal Alert When Can a Claimant Sue a Retailer In Lieu of a Product Manufacturer and Who Has The Burden Proof Under the Washington Products Liability Act (“WPLA”)? By: Brian Schiewe
READ MORE January 17, 2023 | Legal Alert Washington Supreme Court Analyzes Coverage in Tunnel Litigation By: Paul Sheely
READ MORE January 13, 2023 | Legal Alert Of Horse and Man: Can a Malnourished Horse Sue Its Owner? By: Josh Hayward
READ MORE December 14, 2022 | Legal Alert Not All Spoliation Spoils A Claim By: Brian Schiewe
READ MORE November 18, 2022 | Legal Alert Fun with Arbitration: Washington Rules LLC’s Bound to the Arbitration Clauses in Their Own Operating Agreements By: Firm Authorship
READ MORE November 9, 2022 | Legal Alert An Interest in Interest: Arbitration and Post-Judgment Interest Under ORS 82.010   By: Melanie Rose
READ MORE November 3, 2022 | Legal Alert Does Covid-19 Trigger Coverage under a Property Insurance Policy? By: Firm Authorship
READ MORE October 24, 2022 | Legal Alert You’ve Got Mail: Don’t Miss Your Deadlines Because You are Waiting for Mail By: Josh Hayward
READ MORE October 20, 2022 | Legal Alert Delegating a Duty of Care: When Can a Land Owner Delegate a Duty to Keep Others Safe to an Independent Contractor? By: Brian Schiewe
READ MORE October 10, 2022 | Legal Alert By Failing to Fully Admit Liability, The Door to Distracted Driving Evidence (Cell Phone Use), May Be Opened By: Jeff Eberhard
READ MORE October 3, 2022 | Legal Alert What Risks Are Assumed in Construction Work and When Can It Bar Recovery? By: Kyle Riley
READ MORE September 19, 2022 | Legal Alert Time’s Up: Washington Rules Some Nonretroactive Insurance Policies Unenforceable By: Firm Authorship
READ MORE September 8, 2022 | Legal Alert Oregon’s Wrongful Death Statute and ORCP 44C: Who is a “Party”? By: Melanie Rose
READ MORE August 31, 2022 | Legal Alert Maintaining Safe Workplaces: Whose Duty Is It? By: Firm Authorship
READ MORE August 25, 2022 | Legal Alert Schools Are Held to A Higher Standard of Duty When It Comes to the Safety of Students, But Plaintiffs Must Still Prove That Risk of Harm was Foreseeable By: Cliff Wilson
READ MORE August 16, 2022 | Legal Alert Savings Clauses as Life Savers: How to Resuscitate a Contract By: Josh Hayward
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