$5.5 million for a partial quadriplegic shot outside a bowling alley (judgment Marin County)
$1.2 million for a brain injury following a blow to the head (settlement Alameda County)
$600,000.00 for a slip and fall with neck surgery (settlement San Francisco County)
Of Note: Everyone should know that even a relatively minor neck sprain injury, if untreated, can so weaken the spine that the spinal discs can, first protrude, and then herniate into the spinal chord, potentially causing permanent paralysis. This is what occurred to the man in the case cited above who slipped and fell spraining his neck. He came to us after a spinal disc in his neck started to protrude. The last offer was $25,000.00, and his previous lawyer rejected his case for not accepting the offer. By getting a proper medical evaluation by an orthopedic surgeon, that man eventually had major neck surgery and we settled his claim for $600,000.00.
$475,000.00 for a knock-down with head injury (settlement San Joaquin County)
$1.4 million for death of housewife run off the freeway. No contact between vehicles (settlement Contra Costa County)
$67,000.00 for a slip and fall with fractured ankle with a pre-trial offer of $5,000.00 (judgment Santa Clara County)
$247,000.00 for a rear-end car accident with a bulging disc in the neck and post traumatic stress disorder with a pre-trial offer of $25,000.00 (judgment Napa County)
$110,000.00 plus wrote new safety procedures for large, uninsured, school district for death of 9 year old who had an asthma attack at school. This case settled following a jury returning with a proposed $500,000.00 verdict. There was no pre-trial offer (settlement Alameda County).
$450,000.00 for the death of an 18 year old with down syndrome who died mysteriously in a group home (settlement San Mateo County).
$75,000.00 for a rear-end car accident with no visible property damage aggravating pre-existing degenerative disc disease in the neck. There was a pre-trial offer of $20,000.00 (judgment Contra Costa County).
$215,000.00 for a man shot by unknown assailants at a dance hall (settlement San Francisco County)