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Verdicts/Settlements

• On June 26, 2018, a King County jury found that managers at the Washington State Department of Transportation are guilty of retaliation against Stacy Trussler, a former director who was “disability separated” by WSDOT management in 2016. The jury awarded Ms. Trussler $1.2 million in damages and recommended that she be reinstated to a comparable position at WSDOT with protections against further retaliation. The parties stipulated to an additional $571,000 in attorney fees and costs., 2018
• On October 10, 2017, a Benton County jury awarded former MSA manager Julie Atwood $8.1 million in damages caused by MSA’s wrongful termination of Ms. Atwood only days after she blew the whistle on MSA’s misconduct.  See website “Trials” section under Atwood for details.  In addition, she was awarded $1.5 million in attorney fees and legal costs, 2017
• In January 2019, in Robb v. Benton and Franklin Counties, a Walla Walla County jury awarded former Human Services Administrator Linda Robb $1.5 million in damages for retaliation and wrongful discharge in a whistleblower retaliation case against the counties. Of that, more than $541,000 was for non-medical emotional harm., 2019