Experienced Seattle Personal Injury Lawyers
We Represent the Injured. We Represent Individuals. We Represent Families.
Our team of experienced attorneys advocate for those who have been injured by the acts of others. At Ressler & Tesh, we handle a variety of cases, including cases involving childhood sexual abuse, motor vehicle collisions, and wrongful death.
Our goal is to hold all defendants accountable for their actions by recovering full and fair compensation for our clients. We work on obtaining the compensation you deserve while you work on getting well.
Located in historic downtown Issaquah, our team works hard every day to obtain justice for each of our clients.
Excellent results
Tim Tesh’s office handled our PI case with expert care from start to finish. His office obtained a settlement that was much higher than expected.
Melinda
Accident Settlement
Tim took on my case and helped me through a very scary and difficult time. I was hit by a car while on my Scooter. It was the other drivers fault. I was hurt badly and missed over 1/2 year of work. I always felt like they were in control of everything, and I didn’t have to worry about a thing. Very happy with how they handled everything.
Matthew
Great Attorney!
Tim handled my personal injury case very well. He stayed in contact, kept me informed and didn’t let the insurance company run me over. I would absolutely retain Tim again.
Erin C.
Cares for and fights for his clients like they are family!!!!!!!!!!!!
I met and hired Tim about 2 years ago. My neighbors dogs had attacked me and ruined my left hand. After trying to work with the insurance company. I was frustrated and in a lot of pain . If you want someone who will fight for and take care of you like Family, do the beat thing ever for yourself and talk to Tim. 🙂
Anonymous
Excellent Attorney
I have worked with Tim as an expert and as a lawyer and I have always learned something new from him in how he approaches his cases and deals with his clients. I have also referred family and friends to him and he has always achieved great results.
Anonymous
Washington Accident Injury Center
$24,000,000
Settlement with a hospital for minor who suffered a permanent traumatic brain injury. This is believed to be the largest settlement for a single individual ever in the State of Washington.
$19,300,000
Resolved a claim of a foster child against Washington State Department of Social and Health Services for $19,300,000. This is the largest single plaintiff settlement against DSHS.
$19,000,000
The Plaintiffs were a couple injured in a head-on collision with a large commercial truck. The settlements were obtained from the operators of two trucks, one of which was attempting to make an illegal pass and the other of which failed to allow the passing truck to return to the proper lane.
$9,200,000
Plaintiffs were three siblings who were physically and sexually abused by their father. DSHS/DCYF and Spokane County Sheriff’s Office ignored several reports of abuse and neglect regarding the children. Ressler & Tesh obtained a combined settlement of $9,200,000 for the Plaintiffs.
$9,000,000
Settlement with DSHS/State of Washington for six siblings sexually and physically abused by their parents after the State of Washington failed to follow up on their cases after the family fled the state.
$7,8750,000
DSHS/DCYF received dozens of reports regarding abuse and neglect of 5 siblings over several years, yet failed to properly investigate or inform the dependency court of what was happening with these children. The siblings suffered years of sexual and physical abuse at their hands of the biological father.
$7,200,000
Settlement with the State of Washington for three siblings abused by their father after the State failed to competently investigate concerns about their safety in his care.
$6,500,000
Plaintiff was placed with a grandmother out of state. There, the Plaintiff suffered extensive and severe burns over her body due to being put into a bathtub filled with scalding hot water. DSHS/DCYF ignored red flags with the grandmother prior to placing the Plaintiff with her and failed to investigate concerns that were brought to their attention.
$6,250,000
Dependent children from Washington and New York were placed by a New York foster care agency into a home with a known history of concerning allegations of neglect. Ressler & Tesh obtained a $6,250,000 recovery against this agency for these children.
$6,100,000
Tyler DeLeon died of starvation on his seventh birthday. At the time of his death, his bruised and battered body weighed just 28 pounds having been systematically starved and abused by his foster mother, Carole DeLeon, who had previously lost her foster care license when DSHS/DCYF determined that she had abused and starved foster children in her home.
$6,000,000+
Settlement of over $6,000,000.00 for an extended family hit head on near the top of Stevens’ Pass by a teenage driver who crossed the center line at highway speed. Injuries ranged from scrapes and bruises for children who were in car seats to life-threatening injuries sustained by the driver and his wife.
$6,000,000
The Plaintiffs were two sisters who were sexually abused by their foster father and his two sons in a foster home that was negligently licensed and monitored by DSHS/DCYF. Ressler & Tesh obtained a settlement of $6,000,000.00 for the Plaintiffs.
$5,750,000
Two developmentally delayed children suffered years of abuse and neglect in their biological home. DCYF dismissed numerous concerning reports regarding these children and their home, which included information that registered sex offenders were being permitted to stay in the home.
$5,300,000
Four children were placed into an abusive home where they were abused both physically and sexually by their foster (and later adoptive) parents. DSHS later admitted that they failed to adequately vet the Wengers prior to licensing them as foster parents.
$5,050,000
Four foster children suffered physical and sexual abuse in an unlicensed foster home on the Nooksack Indian Reservation. The children were placed in the home due to a lack of communication between DSHS and the Nooksack Indian tribe.
$5,000,000
The Plaintiffs suffered sexual and physical abuse at the hands of foster parents, suffered sexual abuse in his biological home and in a subsequent foster home. DSHS/DCYF ignored the foster parents’ history of abuse of other children and issued a foster home license to them, and failed to conduct regular home visits to the foster home.
$4,999,000
The Plaintiffs’ mother failed to provide proper care and support for them while they were in their early teenage years. DSHS/DCYF received several reports that the Plaintiffs had been abandoned and were living in a motel room with no adult supervision, and were taken advantage of and sexually abused by a number of adult men for several years.
$4,700,000
Settlement for developmentally delayed man who suffered severe neurological injury while in the custody of the Kitsap County Jail.
$4,600,000
Two children were starved and abused by their stepmother over a three year period. The State ignored ample warnings provided by teachers at the children’s schools. Ressler & Tesh obtained a settlement of $4,600,000 for the two minors.
$4,512,659
Combined settlement for woman injured when a Ride the Ducks amphibious vehicle struck a charter bus on Seattle’s Aurora Bridge.
$4,500,000
The Plaintiffs were three siblings who were abused by the teenaged son of their foster parents. DSHS/DCYF failed to conduct regular health and safety visits with the children and should not have approved living arrangements which placed two young boys in the same bedroom with a teenager.
$4,250,000
The Plaintiffs were placed with foster parents who also subsequently adopted them. The Plaintiffs suffered severe physical and sexual abuse at the hands of the foster parents. DSHS/DCYF ignored red flags regarding the foster parents when they were licensed to be foster parents and negligently investigating reports of abuse while the Plaintiffs were in the foster home.
$4,200,000
The Plaintiffs were taken from their mother’s care by DSHS/DCYF and placed in the home of their grandfather and his wife. The grandfather and his wife were abusive alcoholics, unfit to care for young children. A child already living in the home was a regularly sexually abused the Plaintiffs during the 10 months they were forced to share a bedroom with him.
$4,100,000
Settlement for woman who suffered hypoxic brain injury during tracheostomy tube replacement.
$4,000,000
The plaintiff, a young child, was placed into a foster home and forced to share a room with another foster child who was twice his age. Plaintiff was repeatedly sexually abused by the older foster child. DCYF knew of behavioral concerns, including sexually acting out, that the older foster child exhibited, yet DCYF did nothing to protect the plaintiff.
$3,500,000
Two young children were sexually abused and neglected in their biological home. DCYF received dozens of reports, yet repeatedly failed to properly investigate these reports. Finally, law enforcement rescued these children.
$3,100,000
The Plaintiff was sexually abused by his foster brothers while he resided in a foster home. DSHS/DCYF and a private agency both failed to warn the foster parents of a known history of sexualize behavior and failed to remove Plaintiff from the home once sexual abuse was discovered.
$2,700,000
Plaintiff was sexually abused in a foster home and in a residential care facility. DSHS/DCYF failed to respond to prior reports of abuse regarding the foster home and failed to properly oversee the licensing of the residential care facility.
$2,600,000
DSHS received dozens of reports over 10 years regarding abuse and neglect of A.H., yet completely failed to properly investigate or timely file for a dependency.
$2,500,000
DSHS/DCYF issued a foster care license to a convicted sex offender and placed the Plaintiff with him. DSHS/DCYF failed to investigate the background of the foster parent. The Plaintiff was sexually abused by the foster parent.
$2,500,000
Plaintiff was sexually abused by two older foster brothers for years. DSHS/DCYF knew that the older foster brothers had a history of sexual abuse and were sexually aggressive. In addition, DSHS/DCYF ignored reports of abuse of the Plaintiff while he was in the foster home.
$2,500,000
The Plaintiff was placed into the foster home where the Plaintiff suffered sexual abuse at the hands of his foster father. DSHS/DCYF improperly licensed the foster home and failed to regularly visit the foster home to check-in on the Plaintiff.
$2,500,000
The Plaintiff was placed with a relative who sexually abused her. DSHS/DCYF negligently placed the Plaintiff with the relative and then improperly investigated reports of abuse while the Plaintiff was living with the relative.
$2,500,000
The Plaintiffs were siblings who were sexually abused by their older foster brother. One of the Plaintiffs reported her abuse and the siblings remained in the abusive home for several months.
$2,360,000
Settled claim of child who suffered physical and sexual abuse due to negligent investigation by the State of Washington. Ressler & Tesh obtained a recovery of $2,360,000.00 on behalf of the plaintiff.
$2,250,000
The plaintiff was sexually abused by her adopted brother after he was released from juvenile detention for a sex crime. Though the brother was a convicted sex offender, DCYF forced the adoptive parents to take the brother back into their home, even though he was a known risk to the plaintiff.
$2,170,000
The Plaintiff was placed into a foster home where he suffered sexual abuse at the hands of his foster father. DSHS/DCYF improperly licensed the foster home and failed to regularly visit the foster home to check-in on the Plaintiff.
$2,000,000
The Plaintiff was placed with his biological father who physically abused the Plaintiff. In addition, a relative, who DSHS/DCYF knew had allegations of sexual abuse against him, moved into the home with the permission of DSHS/DCYF. This relative sexually abused the Plaintiff.
$2,000,000
The Plaintiffs were placed by DSHS/DCYF in the care of their father’s dependency attorney, who had a criminal history which included an arrest for lewd conduct. The attorney later adopted the Plaintiffs. The Plaintiffs endured several years of sexual abuse in the care of their adoptive father.
$1,915,000
Combined settlement for two minors who were sexually abused in both in their biological home and in a foster home.
$1,860,000
The Plaintiff, a young girl, was removed from her mother’s care by DSHS/DCYF after the mother’s boyfriend shoved the Plaintiff down the stairs, causing a skull fracture. The Plaintiff was placed with her father, who sexually abused her.
$1,825,000
Two young children were sexually abused in their biological home and then placed by DSHS in the home of Nancy and Richard Wheeler where they were sexually abused by another minor.
$1,800,000
The Plaintiff was placed into a foster home in the 1980s where the Plaintiff was subjected to sexual abuse at the hands of his foster father. DSHS/DCYF failed to conduct required visits to the foster home while the Plaintiff lived there.
$1,800,000
The Plaintiff was placed into a foster home where a known sexual predator resided, who then abused the Plaintiff. DSHS/DCYF failed to conduct the proper background checks of all the adults in the foster home and negligently investigated several reports of abuse about the foster home while the Plaintiff lived there.
$1,750,000
Settlement with DSHS/State of Washington for the sexual abuse of a minor in a foster home.
$1,650,000
The Plaintiff was placed in the foster care system as a young child due to parental neglect. She was later returned to her mother’s care by DSHS/DCYF, where she was sexually abused by her mother and a teenage babysitter.
$1,630,000
The Plaintiff was placed by DSHS/DCYF in the Seattle Children’s Home, a group home for children needing inpatient psychiatric care. The Plaintiff was sexually abused by another child in the home on several occasions.
$1,600,000
The Plaintiff was placed by DSHS/DCYF in the Seattle Children’s Home, a group home for children needing inpatient psychiatric care. The Plaintiff was sexually abused by another child in the home on several occasions.
$1,500,000
Having previously terminated the parental rights of James and Tracy Wright, the State nonetheless allowed them to care for four Oak Harbor children where they suffered horrific physical and sexual abuse. Ressler & Tesh obtained $1,500,000 to provide future care and counseling for the children.
$1,466,000
The Plaintiff suffered sexual abuse in his biological home and in a subsequent foster home. DSHS/DCYF ignored reports that the Plaintiff was being abused while in his biological home and then placed him in a foster home with older sexually aggressive foster children.
$1,450,000
The Plaintiff’s infant daughter was placed in foster care by DSHS/DCYF. After the foster parents allowed the baby to sleep in a rocker chair overnight, she was found deceased in the morning. DSHS/DCYF had failed to properly educate the foster parents regarding safe sleep for infants.
$1,400,000
The Plaintiff and her siblings were taken from their mother’s care by DSHS/DCYF and placed in the home of their grandfather and his wife and three children living in the home. The Plaintiff was sexually abused by one of the children. The Plaintiff was moved by DSHS/DCYF to a foster home, and was sexually abused there by the adult son of the foster parents.
$1,400,000
The Plaintiffs were two sisters who were abused by an emotionally disturbed older foster brother. DSHS/DCYF failed to warn the foster parents of the older boy’s alarming history and should not have put young girls into the same home as the older boy.
$1,385,000
The Plaintiffs were sexually abused by their stepfather. After he was arrested, DSHS/DCYF failed to investigate their mother prior to placing them back in her care where she promptly abandoned them back to their abuser. Ressler & Tesh obtained a settlement of $1,385,000.00 for the Plaintiffs.
$1,180,000
The Plaintiff was placed in multiple foster homes in the 1990s where the Plaintiff suffered sexual abuse at the hands of foster siblings and foster parents. DSHS/DCYF failed to conduct required visits to the foster homes while the Plaintiff lived there.
$1,120,000
Settlement with DSHS for placing two children into a Thurston County home where known previous sexual abuse occurred and the adults sexually abused two children, 4 and 6 years old.
$1,110,000
Combined policy limits settlement for woman injured in head-on collision.
$1,110,000
The Plaintiff was placed by DSHS/DCYF at the Kiwanis Vocational Home (KVH) in Centralia, Washington and was sexually abused by several older boys over the course of the year.
$1,050,000
Settlement with a religious institution for two brothers sexually abused at a private high school in the 1970s.
$1,000,000
Resolution for family of deceased passenger following a small airplane crash.
$1,000,000
The Plaintiffs were residents of the Greenhill School were sexually abused by staff of Greenhill. Several criminal convictions followed.
$925,000
The Plaintiff was a young boy whose family, at the request of DSHS/DCYF, agreed to care for a relative who was in foster care. DSHS/DCYF knew that the relative had a history of sexual abuse and was sexually aggressive, yet failed to warn Plaintiff’s family.
$750,000
Resolution for the estate of a teenage girl killed in a semi-truck vs. car accident.
$750,000
Resolution against a bar that over-served a man who went on to run into another car, causing serious injuries to the driver of that car.
$700,000
Settlement with King County for motor vehicle collision.
$600,000
Policy limits for a man hit by a car while driving a motorcycle.
$550,000
The Plaintiff was injured in a T-bone collision. Initially believed to have not suffered serious injury, Plaintiff continued to suffer from back pain despite years of conservative treatment. Surgery was recommended by Plaintiff’s treating physicians, though the defense expert related no injuries to the collision.
$550,000
Settlement against King County Jail for prescription drug side effect.
$546,561
Settlement for underinsured motorist and insurance bad faith claims relating to pedestrian struck by car.
$541,561
Resolution for a man hit while crossing a crosswalk.
$500,000
Verdict in jury trial against the Bellevue School District in case involving sexual abuse at elementary school between two young children.
$500,000
Homeowner’s policy limits settlement for woman accidentally shot during a negligent gun cleaning.
$499,500
A boating collision resulted in significant damages to passengers. Ressler & Tesh was able to recover policy limits on behalf of the injured individuals.
$315,000
Settlement for pedestrian struck by slow moving vehicle.
$300,000
Settlement for gambling losses attributed to failure to warn about a Mirapex prescription.
Substantial Verdict
Substantial verdict in medical malpractice trial involving failure to diagnose intestinal disorder.