RESULTS

$3.1 million VERDICT, bench trial, King et al. v. Wright et al., Contra Costa Superior Court. A child who was ejected from a boat when two speeding boats collided.

$2.2 million SETTLEMENT after mediation for an attorney who suffered a severe head injury when her bike overturned due to faulty roadway construction. The accident occurred as a result of a dangerous condition of public property and the negligence of several construction companies.

$1 million SETTLEMENT for a student badly burned on school premises.

$556,000.00 VERDICT, jury trial Becker v. Cabrera, San Francisco Superior Court. A 27 year-old motorcyclist sustained a severely broken leg when he was cut off by a distracted motorist who was looking for a parking space.

$275,000.00 SETTLEMENT for injuries suffered by a woman who fell down an unmarked and unlit staircase in a rental property. As a result of the fall, the plaintiff sustained a compression fracture in her lumbar spine.

$250,000.00 SETTLEMENT for injuries sustained by a bicycle rider “doored” by a passenger exiting a parked car.

$225,000.00 SETTLEMENT after mediation for a student who was injured on school property by faulty equipment on the premises.

$150,000.00 SETTLEMENT for a plaintiff injured on the premises during a trade show when a forklift operator caused a metal pipe to hit him in the head, causing a head injury.

$125,000.00 SETTLEMENT with the City and County of San Francisco in a case involving an asphalt bump in the roadway that constituted a dangerous condition of public property. The plaintiff tripped and fell due to the condition and, as a result, suffered injuries to her knee and elbow. The City contended that, although the roadway was within the City and County of San Francisco, they owed no duty to repair the roadway as it was an unaccepted street.

$125,000.00 SETTLEMENT in an action against the City and County of San Francisco in which a City employee made an unlawful lane change causing him to hit the plaintiff, who was on a motorcycle. The force of the impact was so great it caused the plaintiff to suffer injuries to his left wrist, hip, leg and knee, as well as to his right foot, his neck and his back. His injuries included a broken wrist that required surgery to repair.

$110,000.00 SETTLEMENT after mediation for an avid bicyclist who was injured when a vehicle made an abrupt left hand turn in front of him.

$100,000.00 SETTLEMENT in a case involving a driver who was rear-ended by a delivery truck at a stop sign, causing the plaintiff to sustain a tear to his right rotator cuff.

$92,500.00 SETTLEMENT for a motorcyclist t-boned by a tow truck driver who ran a red light in San Francisco. The tow truck hit plaintiff on the right side, causing plaintiff to suffer a broken rib, a broken right ankle and a broken right leg.

$87,500.00 SETTLEMENT for a vision-impaired pedestrian who fell into an open and unguarded trench while walking to a San Francisco BART station. The action was against the City and County of San Francisco, BART and a general contractor employed by BART and the City and County to excavate the crosswalk area leading to the BART station. The contractor excavated a large trench and placed cones around the area, which allowed the workers access to the trench. As a vision-impaired pedestrian walked through the crosswalk, towards the trench, the workers did nothing to stop him from falling into the trench.

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