Bullivant Houser Bailey PC, a nationally recognized law firm with offices in Washington, Oregon, and California, is pleased to announce that Loren Podwill has been elected as the Vice-Chair of Tort, Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) of the American…
In a decision issued February 12, 2020, the Oregon Court of Appeals reiterated that, in Oregon, an expert witness may testify to a theory of medical causation that lacks support and general acceptance within the medical community. In Miller v.…
California has long given parties producing documents the option of producing them either as they are kept in the ordinary course of business or organized and labeled to correspond to the categories in the request for production. Institutional parties typically…
Bullivant Houser Bailey PC is proud to announce the launch of our new firm logo as part of an ongoing evolution of our brand. Our business has progressed over the years and we felt it was time for a change.…
The California legislature didn't exactly leave coal in the insurance industry's stocking in 2019, but it did make a number of changes to California's insurance statutes. Those changes include revisions to the manner of calculation of actual cash value, including…
Wilhelm Dingler was elected as a firm shareholder, effective January 1, 2020. Wilhelm is in the business law group and primarily handles professional liability claims from our Seattle office. Wilhelm has been a trial attorney for over 35 years and…
When a new maritime matter comes into the law office, among the first things to be done is determining what the applicable statute of limitations is. A wrong assumption can lead to significant adverse consequences for the client as well…
Bullivant Houser Bailey PC, a nationally recognized law firm with offices in Washington, Oregon, and California, is pleased to announce that Laura Caldera has accepted an invitation to join the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC), the invitation-only global legal…
Most maritime lawyers and seafarers are familiar with the part of the Jones Act that provides a remedy for injuries and death suffered by seamen in the course of their employment on a vessel in navigation, 46 U.S.C. § 30104.…
Wolters Kluwer, the provider of the CCH Tax Software suite of products, discovered an "anomaly" in the spring of 2019 that, upon further investigation, was determined to be malware infecting its systems. The company immediately took its systems off-line, and…