Employment law and consumer protection, explained by the attorneys who litigate it. Straight answers on your rights at work and in the marketplace.
Employment Law
Last week was national Dog Bite Prevention Week and the U.S. Post Office is shining a spotlight on U.S. cities where mail carriers are most at-risk for getting bitten. Unfortunately, Los Angeles has received the dubious distinction of being the dog bite capital at #1 on the list. https://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2013/pr13_052.htm Annually, dogs bite more than 4.7 million people, according to the Centers […]
Personal Injury
One of the most difficult and delicate aspects of handling an auto accident claim is dealing with the dreaded insurance adjuster. Generally, within a few days of an accident you will be contacted by an adjuster from the responsible party’s insurance company attempting to settle the claim. Regardless of how friendly or sympathetic the insurance adjuster seems, beware…the adjuster is not […]
Personal Injury
Michael LaFleur was awarded $1.5 million by a jury after being struck by a Conglobal tractor-trailer truck in an accident. According to LaFleur, he suffered a torn meniscus when he was struck by a Conglobal tractor-trailer while working at J.J. Flanagan Shipping’s chassis depot. After the accident he underwent arthroscopic surgery to repair the torn meniscus and needed physical therapy. Mr. LaFleur […]
Personal Injury
Amy Jong, a 99 Ranch Market shopper has been awarded $1,077,063 in her personal injury lawsuit against the grocery store. According to court documents, Jong slipped and fell while shopping at 99 Ranch Market in Dublin, California on an unidentified liquid near a refrigeration unit. As a result of the fall Jong had to undergo reconstructive […]
Personal Injury
Denise Kaba, 53, was awarded $2.9 million in her personal injury case against Carnival Cruises. According to Kaba, she slipped and fell on Carnival’s pool deck, fracturing her right patella. Her injury required open reduction and internal fixation, and five other surgeries, including a patellar tendon replacement with a cadaver allograft. Kaba claimed she remains […]
Personal Injury
Froilan Oritz, Jr., an air conditioning repairman has filed a personal injury lawsuit against homeowner, Elton L. Hudson after his stairs collapsed causing Ortiz to fall and hurt himself. (Case No. 13-CV-508) According to the lawsuit, Oritz was in Hudson’s home to repair his air conditioner on April 4th. As he walked up the stairs to the attic, where the a/c […]
Personal Injury
Pamela Maxwell has filed a personal injury lawsuit against Greyhound Bus Lines, Inc., Maximino Arellano and Rudolph Mazin Jr. following a collision allegedly caused by one of its bus drivers. (Case No. B194-202) According to their website, Greyhound Lines is the largest provider of intercity bus transportation, serving more than 3,800 destinations with 13,000 daily departures across […]
Personal Injury
In a wrongful death suit, a jury awarded $15 million to the family of two sisters who died in a car accident after their Enterprise Rent-A-Car rental car caught fire. Raechel Veronique Houck, 24, and Jacqueline Marie Houck, 20, were on the 101 freeway in Monterey, California when a fire started under the hood of their rented Chrysler PT Cruiser. The fire caused the […]
Personal Injury
Vanessa Stewart awarded $937,500 for her injuries after being struck by a San Francisco cab. According to court documents, Stewart was walking in a cross walk when she was hit by a Yellow Cab driven by Ram Dhakal while he was making a left turn. Dhakal allegedly kept driving after Stewart was thrown on to the hood and plummeted […]
Personal Injury
David Wheeler, 47 was riding his bike across San Francisco’s Lower Great Highway when bus driver, Roy Timmons made a left turn without signaling or stopping at the stop sign. Wheeler was struck and thrown off his bicycle, causing him to hit his head on the asphalt where he sustained a traumatic brain injury that left him with the mental […]
Personal Injury
Marina Rivas was struck by an 18,000 pound tractor-trailer truck driven by J.B. Hunt’s truck driver Jeffrey Gaines, as he ran a red light. The collision caused her vehicle to careen off the road and crash into a pole, destroying the driver’s compartment of the car. As a result of the accident, Rivas suffered a […]
Personal Injury
Forty-year-old Donald Barrett, was walking in a cross-walk on Pacific Avenue in Venice, California when a MTA bus made a right turn into the cross-walk, striking him. Unfortunately, the bus driver did non realize that he had hit someone and dragged Barrett for 2 blocks until a witness was able to pull their car in front of the bus […]
.jpg?width=1920)
.jpg?width=1920)
