Source: Seattle Times, March 16, 2022
Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/

A King County jury awarded over $150 million to the families of two people who died and to the three people injured after a crane collapsed in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood in April 2019.

Gusting winds knocked the crane over after workers prematurely removed pins holding 20-foot sections together, leading to a tragedy that state regulators called “totally avoidable.” The collapse killed two ironworkers working on the crane, as well as Alan Justad, 71, a former city planning official, and Sarah Wong, a 19-year-old Seattle Pacific University student. Read more.