Benjamin Nivison

Benjamin Nivison

TRIAL ATTORNEY / PRESIDENT OF ROSSI VUCINOVICH

• Avvo
• SuperLawyers
• LinkedIn

Professional Experience

Benjamin Nivison is the president and managing partner of the firm. He is a results-oriented personal injury attorney and counselor who believes that exceptional client service starts with a genuine interest in and understanding of each client’s unique circumstances. No two cases are precisely the same because no two clients are precisely the same.

Benjamin focuses his practice on the resolution of claims on behalf of injured people and their families and has significant experience trying catastrophic personal injury cases, FELA (railroad injury cases), medical negligence claims, products liability actions, and wrongful death matters. Over the course of his career, he has also had significant successes bringing consumer protection and whistleblower matters on behalf of members of the public. Benjamin has handled matters through trial and appeal in both state and federal courts, as well as in various administrative settings.

Prior to joining Rossi Vucinovich, Benjamin was a litigation attorney associated with two well-known Pacific Northwest law firms. He defended matters for insurance companies and large corporations, and he became intimately familiar with the bullying culture such litigation so often reflects. Too many cases were treated by insurers as wars of attrition, with little regard for the fact that people and their families on the other side were suffering in very real ways. Benjamin lost his appetite for that type of work, and he shifted his practice toward helping the proverbial “little guy.” This culminated with him joining Rossi Vucinovich in 2016, where he now is able to draw upon that prior defense experience to help drive positive results for clients who need and deserve his help.

Representative Matters

• $11,000,000 – Wrongful Death. King County Washington policy limits settlement of wrongful death matter related to negligent use of construction site heavy machinery.
• $1,015,000 – Construction Injury.King County, Washington jury verdict in favor of construction worker injured when an overhead concrete pump failed and dumped liquid concrete on his head, neck, and back.
• $3,350,000 – Catastrophic Injury / Products Liability. Client construction worker severely injured when heavy construction machinery began moving unintentionally, due to safety violations and negligent product design.
• $3,250,000 – Medical Negligence.
  Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania jury verdict in medical negligence case in which defendant surgeon left a foreign body in client’s abdomen following surgery. Last pre-trial offer from the defense was $75,000.
• $1,500,000 – Medical Negligence. Medical care during delivery contributed to the death of a newborn child.
• $1,697,262.19 – Motor Vehicle Collision. Settlement of Clark County, Washington head-on motor vehicle collision, in which clients suffered multiple orthopedic injuries.
• $1,042,420.03 – False Claims Act – Whistleblower. – Represented whistleblower in this settlement of a False Claims Act (FCA) case arising from alleged fraudulent underpayment to federal government by local utility commissioners.
• $1,000,000 – Trucking Collision.. Insurance policy-limits settlement of King County, Washington case in which commercial truck driver client suffered severe injuries in single-vehicle rollover trucking accident. Client alleged that negligent maintenance and repair of commercial tractor and trailer caused the crash.
• $713,000 – Railroad Injury.. – Pierce County, Washington jury verdict in favor of 59-year-old locomotive engineer injured in a railyard collision during low-speed switching maneuvers. Non-surgical injuries to neck and back. Last pre-trial offer from defendant railway was $100,000.

Education

• The University of California, Hastings College of Law (J.D., Concentration in Civil Litigation, 2007)
• The University of Southern California, (B.A., 2004, cum laude)