Personal Injury Attorney Washington

Protecting Washington Residents and Visitors After a Serious Accident

When you have sustained serious injuries, you deserve an experienced attorney who will actually work your case personally. Max Meyers Law is intentionally small — we take on fewer cases so each client gets direct attorney attention from start to finish, not a hand-off to a paralegal. Max has been representing Washington injury victims against insurance companies since 1998, and he personally works every case from intake through settlement or trial.

We represent people in complex injury cases involving:

• Traumatic brain injuries
• Spinal cord injuries and paralysis
• Broken bones and fractures
• Burn injuries
• Internal organ injuries
• Amputation and limb loss
• Back and neck injuries
• Soft-tissue injuries and whiplash
• Nerve damage
• Child injuries
• Wrongful death

Whether you live in Kirkland, commute from Seattle, or are visiting Washington from out of state, you benefit from working with a local firm that knows the courts, the insurance carriers operating in this market, and the RCW statutes that will govern your claim. We’ve been doing this in Washington for more than 25 years.

Car Accidents Across Washington State

Car accidents are the single most common source of serious injury claims in Washington. According to the Washington State Department of Transportation, hundreds of people are killed and thousands seriously injured in WA motor vehicle crashes every year. Our Washington car accident lawyer handles claims involving:

• Rear-end collisions
• Head-on collisions
• Side-impact and T-bone crashes
• Improper turns and lane-change crashes
• Hit-and-run accidents
• Distracted driving crashes
• Drunk and drugged driving
• Uninsured and underinsured motorist claims (UM/UIM) — a major issue in WA, where a meaningful percentage of drivers on the road have no valid coverage
• Accidents caused by stolen vehicles
• Multi-vehicle pileups
• Rollover accidents
• Rideshare (Uber/Lyft) accidents
• Defective auto parts

Washington follows pure comparative negligence, which means even if you were partly at fault, you can still recover — just reduced by your percentage of responsibility. Insurance adjusters know this and will aggressively try to shift blame onto you to cut their payout. That’s one of the main reasons injured drivers benefit from having an attorney from day one.

Semi-Truck and Commercial Vehicle Accidents

Any vehicle collision can cause injury. When a fully loaded 80,000-pound semi-truck causes a crash, the results are routinely catastrophic. Truck accident claims are also among the most complex in personal injury law, because there are usually multiple potentially liable parties — the driver, the motor carrier, the freight broker, the loader, the maintenance contractor, the trailer manufacturer. Our Washington semi-truck accident lawyer takes on cases involving:

• Fatigued drivers and FMCSA hours-of-service violations
• Distracted truck drivers
• DUI and drug-impaired truckers
• Jackknife crashes
• Underride accidents
• Blind-spot and no-zone collisions
• Overloaded or improperly loaded trucks
• Inadequate maintenance and pre-trip inspection failures
• Defective truck parts

With semi-truck cases, evidence disappears fast. Electronic logging device data, driver qualification files, and maintenance records can all go missing within weeks if no one sends a preservation letter. If you’ve been hit by a commercial truck, call us before you call the carrier’s adjuster.

Motorcycle Accidents

Motorcyclists face dramatically higher injury risk than drivers of enclosed vehicles. The open nature of the bike offers little protection against a negligent driver’s mistake, and motorcycle claims are often complicated further by insurance-industry bias against riders — a bias that can quietly suppress settlement values unless an experienced motorcycle attorney pushes back.

Max Meyers has spent his career representing injured riders. He wrote Motorcycle Accident Secrets Unlocked specifically for WA riders, and runs MaxPower Law, a dedicated motorcycle accident practice within the firm. Our Washington motorcycle accident attorney handles:

• Left-turn crashes where a driver turned across the rider’s path
• Lane-change and blind-spot collisions
• Rear-end crashes into motorcycles
• Hit-and-run motorcycle accidents
• Dooring accidents
• Road-hazard and road-debris crashes
• Defective motorcycle parts and tire failures
• Passenger injury claims
• Understanding the cost of a motorcycle crash lawyer

Motorcycle injuries often require substantial long-term medical care — orthopedic reconstruction, traumatic brain injury rehab, skin-graft surgery. These costs add up fast. Getting full value for the case means documenting not just today’s bills but the entire lifetime cost of the injury.

Bicycle and Pedestrian Accidents

Seattle, Kirkland, Bellevue, and the surrounding King and Snohomish County cities have some of the most developed bike and walking infrastructure in the state — and some of the highest numbers of bike and pedestrian crashes. Under RCW 46.61.261, drivers and cyclists must yield to pedestrians in crosswalks, but liability questions get complicated fast when a pedestrian steps outside a marked crossing or a cyclist rides against the flow of traffic.

Our Washington bicycle accident attorneys and Washington pedestrian accident lawyers handle:

• Right-hook and left-cross bike crashes
• Dooring crashes
• Crosswalk pedestrian crashes
• Pedestrian-at-fault disputes
• Hit-and-run cyclist and pedestrian crashes
• Parking lot pedestrian accidents

Max also wrote Bicycle Accident Secrets Unlocked — a free book for WA cyclists covering insurance pitfalls, PIP coverage, and the specific ways these claims get undervalued.

Other Injury Cases We Handle for Washington Families

Dog Bites

Washington is a strict liability state for dog bites under RCW 16.08.040 — meaning the owner is liable for a bite victim’s injuries even if the dog had never shown aggression before. Our Washington dog bite lawyers handle attacks that happen on public property, in private yards, and in rental housing where landlord liability may also apply. Dog attack injuries are especially traumatic for children, and the emotional damage can be as serious and long-lasting as the physical injury.

Child Injuries

When a child is hurt by someone else’s negligence — a drunk driver, an unsafe property, a dangerous product — the case has specific procedural wrinkles most adults don’t know about. Washington’s statute of limitations is tolled for minors; a child generally has until age 21 to file. Settlements for minors usually require court approval. Our Washington child injury lawyers help parents navigate both the legal process and the insurance claims so the focus can stay on the child’s recovery.

Wrongful Death

When an accident takes a family member, Washington law limits who can bring a wrongful death claim and what damages the estate can recover. RCW 4.20.010 and RCW 4.20.020 define the statutory beneficiaries, and the rules are narrower than most people expect. Our Washington wrongful death attorneys handle fatal motor vehicle crashes, fatal truck accidents, and fatal motorcycle accidents throughout the state.

A Different Kind of Personal Injury Law Firm

Most injury firms are built on volume. They run hundreds of cases at a time, and the person handling your claim is usually a case manager or paralegal you’ve never met in person. At Max Meyers Law we made the opposite choice. We stay deliberately small so that Max personally works every case we accept.

What that means for you in practice:

• You work with an attorney, start to finish. You’re not handed off after the intake call.
• Free consultation and contingency fee. You pay nothing unless we recover for you.
• Free books. Max has written five consumer guides — Car Accident Secrets Unlocked, Motorcycle Accident Secrets Unlocked, Bicycle Accident Secrets Unlocked, Buying Car Insurance Secrets Unlocked, and Not Another Bad Lawyer — and ships them free to Washington residents. Request a free book.
• The VIP Program. A free resource for Washington residents who want to have a relationship with a lawyer in place before they ever need one.
• Honest advice. Not every injury claim needs an attorney. If yours doesn’t, we’ll tell you that — and send you out the door with the information you need to handle it yourself.

Serving Clients Across Western Washington

We’re based in Bothell and Kirkland, with a third office in Lake Forest Park, and represent injury victims throughout King and Snohomish Counties and across Washington State. Our injury attorneys serve clients in Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond, Woodinville, Kenmore, Everett, Tacoma, Renton, and Lynnwood. See the full list of areas we serve.

Hurt in an Accident in Washington? Let’s Talk.

If you or a loved one were hurt in an accident anywhere in Washington State, call Max Meyers Law today at (425) 970-9300 or contact us online to schedule a free, no-obligation consultation. You’ll talk directly to Max — no intake gauntlet, no scripted screener. We work on contingency, which means no fee unless we recover for you.