Results

Trial Results / Case Highlights

All of use have dedicated our careers to the pursuit of professional excellence. We absolutely appreciate the difference between a firm  like ours, that is structured on a “knights of the round table” theme and one that operates more as an assembly-line, pyramid scheme and we are sure that our clients understand and appreciate that difference.

• KATZ v. DePHILLIPS Personal Injury case. Because of their “security” arrangements being affected by an electrical short in a driving rainstorm, I had to wait at the door of the courthouse until I was dripping wet. I felt worse than just soggy when the jury found for the plaintiff, even though the testifying police officer told them that […]
  Larry R. Nelson
• DOOLE v. RAJEE Insurance fraud case. We had eight first days of trial, mostly because the court kept referring us to mediation in an effort to make the carrier pay enough to settle the case. Our CCP 998 was for $7500 and the plaintiff demanded $9500. The verdict came in for plaintiff on a 100% liability rear-ender case, […]
  Larry R. Nelson
• McLAUGHLIN v. SHINSATO Insurance Fraud case. This was an example of how some carriers are assigning cases to their SIU units when they aren’t really fraud, apparently because their SIU units are very successful. This was a rear-ender accident involving claimed injury when there was none. I broke my rule against ever allowing a lawyer on the jury, […]
  Larry R. Nelson
• (PLAINTIFF) v. (LOCAL CITY) Employment/Sexual Harassment/Gender Discrimination case. Because of a conflict of interest, we represented two police officers that were sued personally. Since we tried to create a down-side risk for the plaintiff, whose allegations had effectively ruined the careers of two innocent police officers, our clients, we cross-complained for a variety of causes of action involving negligent […]
  Larry R. Nelson & Thomas J. Griffin
• SPAULDING v. LEVIN Personal Injury. Plaintiff hit our client’s car on the right fender while riding his bike. With the help of an expert, we tore his chiropractic bills to shreds. However, the judge had decided that under local rule 7 she could take away the right to a jury from both parties. So, because plaintiff had shown […]
  Larry R. Nelson
• (PLAINTIFF) v. ENCINO HAND WASH Insurance Fraud case. This involved a rogue lawyer who we found had filed 33 cases in ten years with himself as plaintiff. He was suspended by the state bar, but that decision was on appeal. Here, he had demanded a $95 detailing of his car for the nominal $8 price for a regular wash. When […]
  Larry R. Nelson
• MARTINO V. ATLANTIC RICHFIELD COMPANY Premises Liability/Negligence. We had a co-defendant driving a rather large U-Haul truck through our client’s service station when he realized that his tank was on the opposite side of where he pulled up. In his haste to make a u-turn, the driver struck the corner of the building, knocking a 1,500-lb. fascia/signage from its support. […]
  Thomas J. Griffin
• KOH V. SIERRA VALLEY MINI MART Insurance Fraud/Premises Liability/Negligence/Intentional Torts. Due to the confusion created by prepaying cash for gas at a busy mini mart, one patron came away with $20 worth of the plaintiff’s gas while, much to his dismay, the plaintiff only got $4. By the time the plaintiff figured this out, the other patron had left, so he […]
  Thomas J. Griffin