Trial News Features Ride the Ducks Closing Argument

“Trial News,” the monthly publication by the Washington State Association for Justice, featured the Ride the Ducks case on its entire front page for March 2019. The publication ran the transcript from Karen Koehler’s closing argument in real, raw form. Paired with the “illustrative exhibits” from trial depicting the plaintiffs on each vehicle, Ms. Koehler’s closing emphasizes the preventability of this tragedy. She reimagines a world in which the defendants took any one of numerous opportunities to do right. Unfortunately, they did not.

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I have handled well over 1,000 plaintiff personal injury cases. I have settled or tried to verdict 80 cases for over one million dollars each. The cases have run the gamut from auto crashes to plane crashes. From highway design to product design. From recreational diving to recreational soccer. From medical malpractice to legal malpractice. From insurance fraud to Insurance Fair Conduct cases. From Federal Tort Claims to Tribal Court claims. I have done them all.