By Cameron Probert | Tri-City Herald A Tri-Cities jury awarded a Whatcom County truck driver $17 million for losing his leg in a crash caused by a severe dust storm on Interstate 82. Jurors decided Frank Tiegs LLC and Greenridge Farming were reckless in how they maintained a 68-acre farm south of Richland near Dallas Road, creating the perfect conditions … Read More
Why Puyallup schools agreed to $300K payout over claim 8-year-old was abused
By Shea Johnson | Tacoma News Tribune The Puyallup School District has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit that alleged a second-grade teacher abused an 8-year-old student with autism, Pierce County Superior Court records show. Filed by the student’s parents last year, the lawsuit claimed that a Pope Elementary instructor locked the plaintiffs’ son outside the classroom on multiple occasions, … Read More
Spokane County Juvenile Detention Center Lawsuit
On October 24, 2025, Connelly Law Offices filed a lawsuit against Defendant Spokane County on behalf of 15 plaintiffs that were victims of childhood sexual abuse by staff at the Spokane Juvenile Detention Center. At the center of the abuse were William “Bill” Lamb and Rafael Gray, two correctional guards who—from the 1980s through at least 2010—groomed, coerced, and sexually … Read More