Practice areas
The cases we take
Defective products are our primary focus. The engineering, recall history and testing records that decide those cases are work we do every day. We also represent people injured in vehicle collisions and on unsafe property, throughout California.
Primary focus
Product liability
When a product is dangerous by design, badly made, or sold without adequate warnings, the companies that put it on the market can be held strictly liable for the harm it causes.
Defective Auto Parts
A ruptured airbag inflator, a tire that loses its tread at freeway speed or a seatbelt that releases on impact turns a survivable crash into a catastrophic one.
Learn moreDefective Medical Devices
Patients accept the ordinary risks of surgery. They do not accept an implant that corrodes, migrates or fractures because its maker never adequately warned anyone of the risk.
Learn moreDangerous Drugs
Most drug cases are not about a medication that failed to work. They are about a serious risk the manufacturer knew of and left off the label.
Learn moreDefective Consumer Products
Nobody inspects a space heater or a pressure cooker before using it. When an everyday product fails the ordinary way it is used, the injuries happen at home, to families.
Learn moreLithium Battery Fires and Explosions
A lithium cell that goes into thermal runaway can vent, ignite and reignite in seconds, often while charging indoors, overnight, next to where someone is sleeping.
Learn moreDangerous Children’s Products
Parents follow the instructions on the box. When a nursery product, toy or car seat still injures a child, the design or the warning was the problem.
Learn moreIndustrial Machinery and Equipment
When a machine lacks a guard, an interlock or a warning it should have had, the equipment maker can be liable even though a workers’ compensation claim is already open.
Learn moreToxic and Chemical Exposure
Chemical exposure cases rarely start with an accident. They start with a diagnosis, and the question becomes which product caused it and who failed to warn.
Learn moreDefective Tires
Tread separation is rarely the driver’s fault. The conditions that cause it are usually built into the tire years before it comes apart.
Learn moreLadder and Power Tool Defects
Ladders and power tools are used millions of times a day, so a design that fails even rarely will predictably maim someone. That risk belongs to the maker.
Learn moreAppliance and Electrical Fires
Families are often told a house fire was accidental. The true origin is frequently a single component that overheated exactly as its own test data predicted.
Learn moreRecalled Food and Supplements
An adulterated product and an undeclared allergen are both defects, and the company that put it into commerce is answerable for what it did to you.
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Also handling
Vehicle accidents
Collision claims on California roads, rails and waterways, including the cases where a vehicle defect contributed to the crash or made the injuries worse.
Car Accidents
After a serious crash the insurance company starts building its file immediately. You should have someone building yours.
Learn moreTruck Accidents
Trucking companies dispatch investigators within hours of a serious crash. Evidence like driver logs and engine data can be lawfully overwritten if nobody demands it.
Learn moreRideshare Accidents
Rideshare coverage turns on the driver’s app status at the moment of the crash, and that single fact can change the available insurance dramatically.
Learn moreMotorcycle Accidents
Riders are routinely blamed for crashes caused by drivers who never looked. We build the case that shows what actually happened.
Learn morePedestrian Accidents
Drivers must yield to pedestrians in marked and unmarked crosswalks and must exercise due care everywhere else. Being outside a crosswalk does not end a claim.
Learn moreBicycle Accidents
A cyclist has the same right to the road as a driver, and California law says so directly. Insurers still start from the assumption that the rider was at fault.
Learn moreBus Accidents
A bus operator owes passengers the heightened duty of a common carrier. If a public agency runs the bus, the deadline to preserve your claim can be six months.
Learn moreScooter and Off-Road Vehicle Accidents
A stem that snaps, a throttle that sticks or a brake that does nothing is not rider error. It is a maintenance and design problem someone else owns.
Learn moreTrain and Rail Accidents
A train weighing thousands of tons cannot stop for a blocked crossing. Responsibility usually sits with how the crossing and the corridor were designed and maintained.
Learn moreAviation and Boating Accidents
Investigators reflexively cite operator error. Maintenance history, component failure and inadequate design are frequently the better explanation.
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Also handling
Premises and injury claims
Injuries caused by unsafe property, inadequate maintenance, missing safeguards and preventable negligence, including the most serious claims a family can bring.
Premises Liability and Slip and Fall
Property owners must keep their premises reasonably safe. These cases are won by proving the hazard existed long enough that it should have been found and fixed.
Learn moreDog Bites
Under California’s dog bite statute an owner is liable for bite injuries even if the dog never showed aggression before.
Learn moreWrongful Death
A wrongful death claim exists so a family is not left carrying the financial consequences of someone else’s conduct, alongside the loss itself.
Learn moreSlip, Trip and Fall Injuries
The hazard is rarely the hard part. The case turns on notice: how long the condition existed and what the owner did about it.
Learn moreConstruction Site Accidents
A workers compensation claim covers your employer. It does not touch the general contractor, the equipment maker or the other trades whose work injured you.
Learn moreNursing Home Abuse and Neglect
Pressure ulcers, dehydration and repeated falls are not the natural course of aging. They are documented consequences of inadequate staffing and care planning.
Learn moreSwimming Pool and Drowning Accidents
Drowning is silent and fast. The safeguards that prevent it are physical, legally required, and frequently missing or disabled.
Learn moreElectrocution and Electrical Injuries
Current travels through the body and injures tissue along the entire path. The wound at the skin is often the least of it.
Learn moreGas Explosions and Burn Injuries
Gas is odorized so people can smell a leak. When a building explodes, something in that safety chain did not work as designed.
Learn moreElevator and Escalator Accidents
These are among the most heavily regulated machines the public uses daily, which means the record of what went wrong almost always exists.
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Not sure which category fits your situation?
A conversation costs you nothing and there is no obligation. No fee unless we recover compensation for you. In some matters a client may still be responsible for case costs and expenses, and we will explain exactly how that works before you decide to hire us.