profilePractice Areas
Employee Benefits/ERISA
Personal Injury Plaintiff: General
Insurance Coverage
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• Washington Rising Stars 2010
Historical data is only available from 2003
Attorney Profile
Aaron I. Engle
Aaron Engle
Seattle
Washington (WA)
Industry Groups:
AAJ, WSAJ
Profile
As a senior associate at the Seattle law firm of Nelson Langer Engle, PLLC, attorney Aaron I. Engle focuses his practice on representing seriously injured individuals throughout Washington state. He handles a range of personal injury cases, including those involving brain injury, catastrophic injury, long-term disability insurance denial and insurance bad faith.
A 2006 cum laude graduate of the Seattle University of Law, Mr. Engle was honored for his excellence in legal writing. In 2010, Mr. Engle and his colleagues at Nelson Langer Engle, PLLC, were featured in Forbes for six significant legal achievements, including several victories in federal court and the passage of the Zackery Lystedt Law.
Mr. Engle is an Eagle member of the Washington State Association for Justice as well as a member of the Washington State Bar Association and the Young Lawyers Division of the Washington State Bar Association.
In addition to his legal work, Mr. Engle is an avid biker, marathon runner, skier and all-around outdoor enthusiast.
About Aaron Engle
Law School: Seattle University School of Law
Admitted: 2006, Washington
Professional Webpage: www.nlelaw.com/about-nln/aaron-engle
Bar/Professional Activity:
- Member, Washington State Bar Association Young Lawyers Division
- Eagle Member, Washington State Association for Justice
- Member, Washington State Bar Association
Representative Clients:
- VanCleave v. The Boeing Company Non-Union Long Term Disability Plan, Case 2:09-cv-01512-RSL Dkt. 25 (W.D. Wash. June 14, 2010) (Court allowed discovery into claims handling practices)
- Smith v. Weekly Disability Income Ins. for Employees of Friends of KEXP, 2010 WL 890068 (W.D. Wash., March 09, 2010) (Court found that further appeals by beneficiary would be futile and allowed lawsuit)
- Scanlon v. Life Ins. Co. of North America, 670 F.Supp.2d 1181 (W.D. Wash. 2009) (Wrongful denial of life insurance benefits and Bad Faith)
- Burkett v. Union Sec. Ins. Co., 2007 WL 1687770 (W.D. Wash., June 07, 2007) (Successfully voided an improper amendment to a long term disability plan)
- Bauer v. Pan-American Life Ins. Co., 2007 WL 3026891 (W.D. Wash., October 15, 2007) (Wrongful denial of private policy long term disability benefits)
Educational Background:
- University of Washington
Call me at 206-623-7520
To: Aaron I. Engle
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