Ken Friedman and David Roosa | Margaret Dallo v. Holland America Line N.V. LLC | $1.689 million verdict

This week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Ken Friedman and David Roosa of Friedman | Rubin (https://friedmanrubin.com/)

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Episode Details:

Friedman Rubin trial lawyers Ken Friedman and David Roosa share their experience trying the first federal Zoom civil jury trial during the pandemic and explain how they secured justice for an 84-year-old woman who sustained a traumatic brain injury on a Holland America cruise ship. In November 2018, passenger Margaret Dallo was walking down a hallway on the ship when she was knocked over by a door opening outward into the hallway. Margaret fell and hit her head on the frame of the door across the hall, resulting in a bilateral subacute subdural hematoma, which allowed blood inside the skull and put pressure on her brain. Margaret's traumatic brain injury required surgery and greatly diminished her mobility and quality of life. In spite of the defense's attempts to blame her medical condition on pre-existing conditions and previous falls, Seattle jurors participating via Zoom conference ultimately ruled in favor of the plaintiff, awarding $1,689,000 in damages.

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Guest Bios:

Ken Friedman

Since joining Friedman | Rubin in 1999, Ken has appeared on behalf of plaintiffs in state and federal courts throughout the United States. He has successfully tried cases involving claims of sexual harassment, defamation, personal injury, police misconduct, and insurance bad faith.

Ken earned his B.A. in History from Antioch College and his J.D. from New York University School of Law.

A well-respected attorney, he has been given the highest rating, “AV Pre-eminent,” by the Martindale Hubbell, and he has been designated as a “Super Lawyer” by his peers in the Washington Law and Politics survey annually since 2009. Ken also has been rated a “10, Superb” by Avvo.com.

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David Roosa

David primarily handles cases involving serious personal injury, traumatic brain injury (“TBI”), insurance bad faith denial of benefits, and nursing home abuse. David has jury trial experience in state, federal, and municipal courts. David and Friedman | Rubin partner Ken Friedman recently obtained a $1.7m verdict in the Western District of Washington’s first ever fully remote jury trial, in which the judge, the jury, the attorneys, and the witnesses all participated via Zoom. (See Bloomberg Law report – here]. David also occasionally tries criminal cases, and has obtained two defense verdicts in 2015, and another in 2017, for wrongfully accused citizens. At the appellate level, David has briefed a number of cases before Washington Division I and Division II court of appeal commissioners, and authored (uncredited) the prevailing briefs in the Wyoming Supreme Court case Irene v. Seneca, et. al., 337 p.3d 483 (Wyo. 2014).

David grew up in Alaska and graduated from West Anchorage High School in 1997. After high school, he spent one year as a Rotary International Exchange Student in Rostock, Germany. Upon returning to the U.S., David studied at the Ohio State University and graduated in 2002 with a B.S. in International Business and a B.A. in German Language and Literature. David then spent roughly two years in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, at the Centro ISI English Academy through the AIESEC program teaching English to adults and children.

Before starting a career in the legal field, David worked for three years as a Licensed Customs Broker and Ocean Import Manager for a global logistics/freight-forwarder and NVOCC in Chicago, IL.

David lives with his wife and two sons in West Seattle. His hobbies include competitive running and swimming, outdoor grilling, watching Ohio State football games in the fall, and playing the guitar – badly.

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Free Resources:

Stages Of A Jury Trial - Part 1

Stages Of A Jury Trial - Part 2