Practice Area: Medical malpractice
Date: Jul 18, 2016
Outcome: $250,000
Description: Client’s mother died of cervical cancer due to the failure of her doctors at a federally funded clinic to perform appropriate and timely Pap smears over a 7 year period. The U.S. denied negligence, and denied that the cancer was cervical in nature, and therefore would not have been detected even if testing had been done.
Practice Area: Personal injury
Date: Jun 06, 2016
Outcome: $85,000
Description: Client was a FedEx Business driver. On a delivery to a local Petaluma warehouse, a dock worker removed the loading ramp between the truck and the dock while client was inside securing the load. Client fell between the truck and the dock while backing out with a load, suffering a coccyx injury.
Practice Area: Personal injury
Date: Jan 11, 2016
Outcome: $217,500
Description: Defective and dangerous sidewalk outside of business caused client to trip, fall and shatter her arm. Liability was disputed, and the client was blamed from not seeing the defect in the sidewalk. Settlement reached prior to trial.
Practice Area: Insurance
Date: Dec 23, 2015
Outcome: $120,000
Description: Client was a dentist who became disabled due to chronic back pain. His disability insurance company refused to honor his claim. A lawsuit was filed to enforce the disability insurance benefits owed. Settlement was reached.
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Practice Area: Personal injury
Date: Sep 29, 2015
Outcome: $150,000
Description: Assault and battery leading to broken ankle. Defendant denied the incident and there were no independent witnesses. However, defendant did not testify credibly, leading to settlement of the case
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