Bill Marler

Here's lawyer Bill Marler.

You know, I remember the media was covering, you know, day 37 of Breanne Kiner's coma.

You know, the doctors were telling the Kiner's that there was no hope that they should actually remove her from life support.

She'd been, you know, in a hospital bed by then, probably three and a half months.

So she was incredibly weak and you could kind of hardly see her because she was so small and shriveled.

I mean, this is, you know, her body was a pin cushion.

It was a very, as a father, it was a really frightening experience to see a kid like that.

And it was so overwhelming, I just sort of backed up, walked out the door, and, you know, I was pretty emotional.

And I wound up still talking to the Mrs. Kiner afterwards, but I was pretty confident that they weren't going to hire me because how many times are you going to hire a lawyer that breaks into tears?

I was working up damages, you know, what is the long-term impacts of somebody with no large intestine or who's a diabetic or who was on dialysis for as long as she was or suffered a brain injury.

All that had to be...

put together with complex medical experts who could, you know, opine about what happened to her, but also what the future held for her, which was obviously very complex.

And I got hundreds and hundreds of boxes of paper.

This was long before the internet, long before computers, long before the ability to do databases.

And a truck rolled up to my office and dumped off literally several hundred boxes of paper.

I think they felt that I never would go through them.

And so we started going, you know, myself, my staff, the other lawyers started going through all the documents and we started to see things like, you know, we knew that the state of Washington had increased cook times, but we didn't know for sure whether or not that information had gotten a jack in the box.

Jack in the Box chose to continue to cook their hamburgers at the lower level because increasing the temperature would require increasing the amount of time the hamburger cooked from two minutes to two minutes and 15 seconds.

And that would have made their hamburgers less a fast food.

And so they made the decision to essentially ignore