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Kristin Houser is an experienced litigator with over 35 years representing individuals in a wide variety of cases. At SGB, Kristin handles cases helping people who have been injured as a result of asbestos exposure, medical malpractice, defective products and serious accidents.
Kristin began her legal career working in legal services programs representing low-income residents of Oregon and Washington. In the 1980s, she successfully litigated several statewide class actions challenging cuts in disability benefits and food stamps. Kristin came to Schroeter Goldmark & Bender in 1983 to do asbestos litigation, which was her focus until the early 1990s. Since then, Kristin has worked primarily on medical malpractice cases, cases involving defective products, including pharmaceutical products and hip implants, and cases involving catastrophic injury or wrongful death. She has also represented the Governor of Washington, pro bono, in litigation involving health care reform. She received her J.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and her bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, from Yale University. She has also been named a Washington "Super Lawyer" for a number of years.
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Kristin Houser gets results!
- $3 million settlement in an Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) case
- Multiple settlements over $1 million in birth injury case
- $1.77 million settlement in traumatic brain injury case
- $2.7 million settlement in a pharmaceutical product case
- Multiple settlements over $1 million for individuals with mesothelioma, an asbestos cancer
- $1.8 million settlement in a case involving a failure to diagnose brain aneurysm in a 29-year-old woman
- $4.2 million settlement for delay in diagnosis and treatment of bowel obstruction requiring emergency surgery
Education
- Yale University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1971
- University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D., 1974
Admissions
- Washington Supreme Court
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington
- U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
- United States Supreme Court
Professional and Civic Involvement
- Member (Eagle), Washington State Association of Justice
- Former Trustee and past President, Harborview Medical Center Board
- Member, Martin Luther King Scholarship Committee of Mount Baker Community Center
- Trustee, Coleman Foundation
- Board Member, University of Washington Neighborhood Clinics
- Member, King County Mental Health Advisory Board
- Co-founder, Legal Clinic at El Centro del al Raza
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