Mr. O’Donnell recently received the honor of being one of the few Alaska attorneys to be inducted as a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers. “The American College of Trial Lawyers, founded in 1950, recognizes the very best trial lawyers from the United States and Canada. The College’s…
Mr. Vollertsen was selected as an Alaska Super Lawyer for 2015, and has been selected for this honor every year since 2007. Mr. Vollertsen has been a member of the Atkinson, Conway & Gagnon law firm since 1982. His practice includes complex litigation matters primarily involving products liability, wrongful death,…
Benchmark Litigation has selected Richard E. Vollertsen as a 2015 Litigation Star in Alaska. His law firm, Atkinson, Conway & Gagnon, was also selected by Benchmark as a recommended law firm in general and plaintiff’s personal injury litigation practice.
Settlement was reached today in the Stryker Rejuvenate/ABG II hip implant litigation. Claimants eligible to participate in the settlement are those who have had surgery to replace their Stryker hip implant device, in a procedure called a revision, prior to November 3, 2014. Claimants who have not yet had revision…
Mr. O’Donnell recently successfully concluded an insurance “bad faith” case against Allstate Insurance Company. After a two-week trial, the jury found that Allstate had failed to disclose and pay Mr. O’Donnell’s client $100,000 in Underinsured Motorist Coverage that was available from a prior class action settlement. The jury not only…
Over the years we have handled numerous “insurance bad faith” claims against auto insurers. These cases often involve situations where, following a serious auto accident, the insurance company fails to disclose and pay all the insurance coverage that is owed to the injured insured. We have seen that auto insurers…
For more than 40 years, CT scanning has been an essential tool in medical diagnostics. While the imaging technique has allowed doctors to obtain images of a patient’s heart, brain, abdominal organs, and vasculature, its effectiveness is reduced whenever a patient moves during the imaging process–even the slightest movement can…
Stryker Orthopedics has recalled its Rejuvenate and ABG II hip implant components because they are shedding metal particles that cause two different types of medical concerns. First, the particles contain toxic levels of cobalt and chromium that cause local tissue reactions. These reactions include pain at the implant site, which…
Richard E. Vollertsen, of The Alaska Personal Injury Law Group, has been selected as Alaska counsel for the New York law firm, Weitz & Luxenberg, to assist in defective product claims concerning hip implant devices manufactured by Stryker Orthopedics. Weitz & Luxenberg has been designated as one of the lead…
We routinely advise clients here at the Alaska Personal Injury Law Group about their legal rights concerning their medical records. We do this to encourage them to become knowledgeable consumers of medical services. Essentially, the more informed the client is as a patient, the better services they can receive from…