Case Results
California Truck Accident Attorneys
| Confidential Settlement | Auto Products Liability case
against Daimler Chrysler Motor Company and the rental car
agency that rented a 15-passenger van to a group of friends
going from Los Angeles to Las Vegas for a birthday party.
The fifteen passenger, Ram 350, van rolled over, roof crushed,
seat belts failed and passengers ejected. Multiple deaths
and serious injuries. |
| Confidential Settlement | Auto Products Liability
case against Ford Motor Company and the rental car agency
that rented a 15-passenger van to a church group traveling
from Southern California to Northern California for a church
function. The fifteen passenger, F350, van rolled over, roof
crushed, seat belts failed and passengers ejected. Multiple
deaths and serious injuries. |
| Confidential Settlement | Auto Products Liability case
against Ford Motor Company and the maker of a failed seatbelt,
TRW. Negligence case against U-Haul the renter of the truck
that caused the accident for negligent maintenance and failing
to instruct the driver. Auto vs. Auto negligence case against
the driver of the U-Haul truck. A minor child was paralyzed
and eventually died as a result of a three vehicle collision
involving two Ford Explorers, both rolled-over, a seat belt
failure (false latching) and the failure of the roof of one
of the Explorers. Driver injured due to roof crush. |
| $3 Million+ | Motorcycle vs. Auto Accident.
Client’s previous attorney insisted that client settle
case for the $15,000 policy limit of the negligent auto driver.
Case was eventually settled for cash up front, an annuity
(a stream of guaranteed payments for life) and payment of
the workers’ compensation insurance reimbursement rights.
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| Confidential Settlement | Auto Products Liability case
against General Motors for the roll over and roof crush of
a Tahoe resulting in the death of the driver and a passenger. |
| Confidential Settlement | Auto Products Liability case
against Ford Motor Company for failure of front seat system
which resulted in the death of a child rear seat passenger
in a 30 mile an hour rear end impact auto accident. |
| $1,425,000 | Auto accident caused by dangerous
condition left on freeway by CalTrans (State of California)
contractors resulting in the death of two teenagers. |
| $1,250,000+ | Auto vs auto accident which
included a failure of client’s (the driver) restraint
system (seat belt anchor). Within fifty days of being hired
and through the diligence and tenacity of the law firm’s
staff, insurance policies were located and policy limit settlements
were arranged. (this was partially due our reputation with
the insurance companies and their attorneys). We are now proceeding
against Nissan Motors on the products liability claim and
seeking punitive damages. The seat belt anchor system was
designed so weak that it evidenced “a conscience disregard”
for the safety of the seat belt user. |
| $1,000,000+ | Auto vs. Auto accident with
two spinal surgeries. Collected defendant driver’s policy
limit. Won a binding arbitration award for the policy maximum
from the injured tow truck driver’s employer’s
insurance company. Settled an “insurance bad faith”
lawsuit against the employer’s auto insurance company
for their failure to fairly handle the initial uninsured motorist
claim costing the client nearly a year time delay in a resolution
and costing him additional attorney’s fees and costs
to prosecute the binding arbitration. |
| Confidential Settlement | Auto Product Liability case against General Motors for the death of an adult daughter killed when the roof of Chevrolet pickup crushed during a roll over accident in Mexico. |
| Confidential Settlement | Auto Product Liability case
against General Motors for seat belt failure in a Chevrolet
pickup resulting in a passenger being thrown through the front
windshield when the truck went into a ditch. Concussion and
facial scaring. |
| Confidential Settlement | Auto Product Liability case
against Susiki Motors. Winds caused driver to lose control
of Susiki Samuri resulting in the Samuri rolling over and
killing a teenage passenger. |
| Confidential Settlement | Auto Product Liability case
against General Motors for roof failure (roof crushed in on
driver) and against a brake shop for brake failure in a Chevrolet
pickup. Driver sustaining a spinal injury when the truck’s
brakes failed and the truck went off the side of a mountain
road and the roof crushed in on the driver’s head. |
| $825,000+ | Bus vs. Pedestrian on-the-job
injury. Concussion. Settlement also included Metro Link pay
additional funds to reimburse workers’ compensation
insurance company. |
| $520,000 | Auto accident where building
materials from freeway construction site hit plaintiff’s
car. CalTrans freeway construction contractor initially denied
liability. Extensive discovered uncovered a cover up of evidence
by the CalTrans contractor who then settled just before trial. |
| $750,000 | Auto vs. Auto accident. Collected
total of defendant’s insurance and then arbitrated client’s
uninsured motorist claim. Her insurance company insisted that
she was not entitled to the full policy limit until moments
before starting the binding arbitration with the threat of
an insurance bad faith case hanging over their heads. |
| $500,000 | Auto vs. Auto, clients previous
attorney recommended settling for less than $200,000 after
a surgery. Uninsured motorist claim settled for $650,000 with
questionable causation and injuries plus recover from defendant
driver. |
| Confidential Settlement | Auto vs. Auto accident. Defendant
was uninsured. Client’s uninsured motorist insurance
carrier refused to pay her claim. We won a policy limit award
at the uninsured motorist arbitration. Due to her insurance
companies “bad fath” and negligence in handling
her claim, we sued the insurance company. The “bad faith”
claim was settled for a “confidential amount”. |
| $300,000 | Auto vs. Auto accident. This
elderly client had been represented by former attorney for
over six months. We took over representation, conducted our
investigation, gathered the evidence, made her claim and settled
it for policy limits, twenty times more than she was expecting,
in less than two months from beginning her representation. |
| $300,000 | Road design defect against CalTrans. |
| $300,000 | Auto vs. Pedestrian. Defense
contended that our client was negligent in “J”
walking, stepping out into the street in the face of an on
coming vehicle and was attempting to commit suicide when he
stepped into the street. The defense settled for their policy
limit rather than risk us winning an even greater amount at
trial. |
| $292,000 | Wrongful death auto accident. |
| $275,000 | Judgement against the owner
of a dog who bite a young boy in the face. $25,000 of the
money was a settlement against the owner/landlord and leasing
company of the premises where the dog was housed and where
the boy was attacked. |
| $250,000 | Trucker delivering to Carl’s
Jr’s. Anaheim warehouse was injured by a forklift driver
while on loading dock.. Case taken over from previous attorney
who was not equipped to go to trial. |
| $200,000 | Auto vs. Parked Commercial vehicle.
Death of daughter passenger in auto that ran into illegally
parked semi-truck. Parents refused to accept settlement offered
during trial which was Multiple times higher. |
| $165,000 | Auto vs. Auto accident. |
| $150,000 | Plaintiff injured while walking
through his condominium parking lot to his unit at night.
Pipes attached to the top of a plumbing truck created a hazard
in the dark. |
| $150,000 | Auto vs. Auto - surgery. |
| $150,000 | Auto vs. Auto - policy limit. |
| $145,000 | Auto vs. Auto accident. Settled
for total of multiple auto insurance policies that we were
able to discover and then “stack”. |
| $140,000 | Auto vs Auto. Settled auto claim
on behalf of injured party for the $100,000 policy limit and
then collected $40,000 additional for family member who was
traumatized by witnessing injury (Dillon claim). |
| $137,000 | Auto vs. Pedestrian. |
| $125,000+ | Slip & Fall case against
Wal-Mart. The defense attorneys before the trial bragged that
they had NEVER lost a Wal-Mart case and they would go up on
appeal it they lost. Jury awarded $125,000 and Wal-Mart appealed.
Wal-Mart eventually settled appeal paying more than the original
jury award. |
| $125,000 | Auto vs. Auto - surgery |
| $109,000 | Auto vs. Auto |
| $109,000 | Award in Premises Liability
- Salon chair collapsed injuring patron leg. Infection and
scarring. |
| $108,000 | Auto vs. Auto |
| $100,000 | Auto vs Auto accident, policy
limit. We have many dozens of case histories of $100,000 policy
limit recoveries. Our systematic approach to cases in general
and auto accident cases particularly, positions our client’s
to recover policy limits by exposing the defendant’s
insurance company to a judgment potential in excess of the
policy limit, in which case they would be forced to pay the
entire judgment, regardless of their policy maximum limits. |
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