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• GOLDEN SUPERMARKET v. CIGA Insurance Fraud/Arson case. The proud owner of a grocery store set it ablaze on the last day of the Rodney King riots, but when his insurer went under, he lost his bad faith leverage when CIGA took over. Although he was eventually offered $80,000, he wouldn’t take it and instead suffered a 12-0 jury decision […]
  Larry R. Nelson
• Driver v. Driver–Ventura Superior Court Plaintiff, a 60 year-old woman, was driving her vehicle on a street in Simi Valley. Defendant, a 65 year-old woman with her grandchild in the car, turned left in front of plaintiff at an uncontrolled intersection. The collision was substantial and plaintiff’s late model car was totaled. Plaintiff claimed serious soft-tissue injuries, and she also […]
• Plaintiff vs. Lucky’s Supermarket–Los Angeles Superior Court Plaintiff worked for a food distributor at the time of the accident. Plaintiff testified in deposition that, earlier in life, he was a professional baseball pitcher, playing for the Dodgers and for the White Sox, among other teams. He said that he had won the All-Star game in 1967. By sometime in the 1970s, he […]
• Plaintiff vs. Shopping Center–Los Angeles Superior Court Plaintiff was a 72 year-old retired restaurant manager who tripped and fell in a major Los Angeles shopping center parking garage. She claimed that the garage was poorly lit, and that a handrail and handicapped ramp should have been installed at the curb. She suffered a compression fracture at T-12, and fractured hip, with femoral […]
• MCCELVOGUE v. FARIAS Personal Injury. I represented a plaintiff’s “capper”, who rear-ended several vehicles while driving his Rolls Royce on the freeways, while being radio-dispatched to accident sites. I took the case over from a younger associate when I noticed that the file was being spiced with letters complaining about the level of his experience by the client’s […]
  Larry R. Nelson
• MCELDERY V. JOSEPH Premises Liability/Dog Bite. The plaintiff was a Los Angeles County Sheriff Deputy who was teasing the homeowner’s pitbull over their retaining wall from the street. The off-duty cop underestimated the agility of the dog while waiving his hand over it to see how high it could jump. The dog could jump higher than he anticipated […]
  Thomas J. Griffin
• CAWELO WATER DISTRICT v. AMOCO Construction Defect/ Products Liability case. Over six months at trial after three years of discovery about plastic irrigation pipe. Jury instructions that didn’t allow a one year warranty to apply to an owner, even though they had their representatives in the manufacturing plant approving each unit of pipe, saying instead that as a matter of […]
  Larry R. Nelson
• BLOODWORTH v. PALMDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT Personal Injury. Plaintiff broke his neck at Spring football practice when the coaches, who had gone 0-10 the previous year, decided to have their players hit “live” but without the usual equipment, since using equipment in the Spring was against C.I.F. rules. Our opposing counsel used the “blurt out” method of getting around a motion […]
  Larry R. Nelson