Personal Injury

Representative Cases

Personal injury action by inmate in custody at a federal correctional institution. Allegations of inadequate medical attention that exacerbated injuries sustained due to dangerous conditions that were not remediated. Settled.

Personal injury case, where plaintiff, a bicyclist, suffered severe injuries in an accident allegedly caused by large cracks on the street of a municipality. The city acknowledged cracks in the street but alleged the cracks did not cause the accident and presented GPS evidence which the city claimed proved that the cyclist did not actually ride over the alleged dangerous condition but instead was several feet away from the crack when the accident occurred.

Motorcycle v. motor vehicle accident on 91 freeway where the car allegedly made an unsafe lane change. The driver of the car alleged that they motorcyclist accelerated suddenly just as his car was making the lane change.

Three car accident in which the plaintiff, a 68-year-old woman, was a pedestrian in a crosswalk and was injured by the second car to be rear-ended.

A bus passenger, the only passenger on an MTA bus, allegedly was injured when the bus accelerated too quickly in violation of MTA operational guidelines, which the MTA disputed.

A slip and fall case in which the plaintiff, a shopper at a supermarket, allegedly slipped on water that splashed on the floor by workers stocking shelves with ice. The handling of the ice bags and the plaintiff testing the water with her foot and then slipping were both captured on the store’s video camera.

Plaintiff, an elderly woman, allegedly slipped on food in a restaurant on her way to the restroom. The plaintiff alleged the restaurant staff ignored and failed to clean up food that had fallen and sought damages of $100,000.

Plaintiff was injured when the defendant, a British citizen on an approximately 11-hour layover at LAX, made an unsafe turn on La Cienega.

Plaintiff was injured in a crosswalk on Ventura Boulevard in Encino when the defendant, whose vehicle had stopped at the crosswalk and allegedly was distracted, possibly by texting, abruptly accelerated too quickly and struck the plaintiff, resulting in moderately severe injuries.

Plaintiff was bitten and suffered severe lacerations by a pitbull whose owner allegedly was renting an apartment on defendant’s property. Defendant asserted that while he had seen the pitbull before, he did not think it was his tenant’s dog and disputed that the biting incident occurred on his property.