Significant Victories

One: Slip/Fall

Terry E. Lumsden handled the leading case in the country in '75 when it came to the issue of whose at fault when a customer slips and falls on a self-service premises , Ciminski vs. The Finn Corporation, 13 Wn. App. 815, 537 P.2d 850 ('75).

Two: The Denial of proper Insurance Coverage and The Relative Punitive Damages

Terry E. Lumsden sued a Cali. insurance agency, he alleged that they wrongfully refused to properly repair the truck of an insured clients truck, which was eighteen-wheeler tractor trailer, after only 1 auto accident.

Three: E-Coli Contamination of food

Terry E. Lumsden didn't only represent a seriously hurt child in result of the Jack-In- The Box E-coli outbreak in Washington State Feb. of '93, he was actually the leader of, and he directed ten lawyer firms that had represented severely injured children in result of the outbreak.

Four: Catastrophic Apt. Fire

In Nov. of '97, there was a horrible fire in Bremerton Washington at a one hundred and fifty unit apt. building named Kona Village. This fire it self could be seen from as far as five miles away in the downtown Seattle area. A chopper circled above and took photographs. This story was on national TV for many days. Four people were pronounced dead from the fire. All of the tenants of the apt. building were homeless and almost one hundred of the tenants had lost all of their possessions when the apartment building burned.
Many of these tenants had woken up suddenly and were forced to flee their burning apartment in there pajamas. Terry E. Lumsden and his co counsel represented eighty of these tenants which included two of the families who had lost their loved ones.

Five: The Cadet Wall Heaters Case

Terry E. Lumsden represented the very largest and the leading personal injury case involving the Cadet Mfg. Company and also, the landlords of an apt. four-plex. This Cadet heater was alleged to have failed and upon failure had caused a love seat to catch on fire, which led to the death of two young children. They were living in the upstairs bedrooms.