An injury caused by someone else’s carelessness reorders your life in an afternoon — the treatment, the missed work, the calls from an adjuster whose job is to close the file cheaply. Our job is to take that weight off you and to value the claim properly, including the part of it that is not a receipt.
The cases we handle
- Car and truck collisions — distracted, impaired and fatigued driving. Collisions involving commercial trucks are their own category: the weight differential makes the injuries severe and the carriers defend them hard.
- Motorcycle accidents — broken bones, burns, head injuries. Riders are routinely blamed for crashes they did not cause, and rebutting that assumption early matters.
- Bicycle and pedestrian accidents — where there is nothing between a person and a vehicle, and injuries are correspondingly serious.
- Premises liability and slip-and-fall — an unmaintained walkway, an unmarked spill, a stairway that was left to deteriorate.
- Dog bites — California holds owners strictly liable, meaning the dog’s history is not a defense.
- Catastrophic injuries — traumatic brain injury, spinal injury and other harm that changes what the rest of a life looks like. These are valued over a lifetime, not over a course of treatment.
- Wrongful death — no recovery replaces a person. Holding the responsible party to account, and recovering lost support and funeral costs, is what the law can offer a family.
Deadlines
In California you generally have two years from the date of injury to file a personal injury lawsuit. If a city, county, transit agency or other public entity is involved, the window is far shorter — a written claim is generally due within six months. That short deadline catches people constantly. If a government vehicle or property is any part of your case, call sooner rather than later.
What it costs
Nothing up front. We work on contingency: our fee comes out of the recovery, and if there is no recovery there is no fee. The initial consultation is free.
Being partly at fault does not end your case
California uses pure comparative fault. If you bear some share of responsibility, your recovery is reduced by that share — it is not eliminated. Insurers know this and use an early admission of fault to argue the number down. Say as little as possible to the other side’s adjuster and talk to a lawyer first.
Hurt while you were working?
Then you may have two claims, not one. A workers’ compensation claim runs against your employer regardless of who was at fault. If someone else caused the injury — another driver, a subcontractor, a defective product — a personal injury claim can run alongside it against that party. We handle both, so neither gets overlooked.
Free consultation. Call 818-350-2658 or use our contact form. Our office is at 27001 Agoura Road, Suite 350, Calabasas. Se habla español.