Our Practice
Gierke, Curwen, P.S. , services clients in State and Federal Courts in Western, Central and Eastern Washington. The firm's practice includes insurance defense and coverage litigation involving the defense of claims involving professional medical and legal negligence, including pharmaceutical malpractice; real estate agents, and brokers; retail insurance agents and brokers E&O claims; managing general agency E&O claims; property and premises liability claims; product liability; construction site defects; construction site accidents including OSHA and WISHA violations; the defense of class actions; Civil Rights Act claims under 42 USC §1983; employment law for employers; family auto, municipal transit defense, taxicab, limousine, charter party carriers, excursion carriers and intrastate and interstate passenger common carriers; tractor-trailer carrier claims; general casualty, fire; surety; and life, health, and disability claims.
Our practice includes insurance defense and coverage matters on first party, third-party, personal, commercial, professional, and specialty lines claims, and also includes examinations under oath, property and business interruption claims, professional negligence, products liability, Directors and Officers Errors and Omissions, municipality, construction, and general liability defense. The firm's practice also involves commercial litigation, legal services and compliance advice to multi-specialty medical clinics and physicians, and alternate dispute resolution, including arbitrations and mediations.
The firm also engages in the representation of employers in a broad variety of personnel matters, including the defense, arbitration and mediation of discrimination and discharge, sexual harassment, age, gender, race, religious preference, sexual orientation, and handicap discrimination claims.