Seattle Environmental Class Action Attorney | Washington State Environmental Class Action Lawyer

ENVIRONMENTAL

Environmental law is about protecting the health, homes, and livelihoods of ordinary citizens. When someone pollutes the water, soil, or air, families can be forced out of their homes or lose their lifelong investment in their property or business. And toxic contaminants can be especially harmful to children. Often, the contamination affects whole communities. In those cases, bringing a class action on behalf of the community may be the most effective way to obtain relief.

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There is no charge for us to evaluate your potential claim. If we take the case, we do so on a contingency basis and we advance all the costs of the litigation. Class action plaintiffs are not responsible for fees or costs, and we only recover our fees and costs if we are successful in obtaining relief for the class through judgement or settlement. Contact us for a free, confidential case review or call us at 1-800-809-2234.

Our attorneys know the laws enacted to protect the environment and your health. We know how to use sound science to prove the source of contamination and the effects of toxic exposures. With this knowledge, we can obtain fair compensation for people whose health, safety, and property have been hurt by environmental contamination. Specific areas of our environmental law expertise include:

There are both statutory and common law remedies available for victims of environmental contamination. Common law remedies such as actions for nuisance and trespass can provide compensation for injuries to health, damage to real property, loss of use and enjoyment of property, and reduction in property value. Such actions can also provide a mechanism for abating (or stopping) the contamination. Statutory remedies under the Washington Model Toxics Control Act and federal laws can provide a mechanism for compelling the clean-up of contamination and shifting the costs of clean-up to those responsible for the pollution.

Investigating cases of environmental contamination can be a long and difficult process. SGB can help property owners and communities get organized, identify qualified experts to conduct environmental testing, and determine whether there are potential health threats that need to be assessed by public health officials and other government agencies.

$675,000 class action judgment against a private water company that supplied 59 Lewis County households with contaminated and erratically chlorinated tap water.
$545,000 verdict, in addition to a confidential settlement, for a class of Pierce County homeowners exposed to excessive copper in their drinking water.
$2.2 million settlement for a class of Kitsap County residents whose mobile home park was built on an old landfill and who were exposed to gases released by a nearby active landfill.

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ENVIRONMENTAL