Representative Matters

Aviation
• • Catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death disputes including wrongful death allegations arising from airline crashes
  • Bodily injury claim involving severe burns, including against United Airlines for hot water spilled by flight attendant onto a passenger 
Maritime Admiralty
• • Premises liability claim due to defective and dangerous condition of a tour boat resulted in wrongful injury
  • Maritime dispute arising from the wrongful death during a dive operation
  • Numerous claims involving the Jones Act (Merchant Marine Act of 1920) and Longshore Harbor Workers Act (LSHWA) resulting in wrongful injuries sustained while working aboard vessels
  • Maritime dispute arising from the wrongful injury on a fishing boat resulting in a partial amputation 
Personal Injury
• • Catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death disputes including wrongful death allegations arising from construction sites and military exercises
  • Claims of personal injury on construction site resulting in employee’s injuries, loss of earnings/earning capacity, and general damages
  • Claims of negligence and personal injury in trucking yard resulting in employee’s injuries, loss of earnings/earning capacity
  • Premises liability claims resulting in bodily injury
  • Wrongful death claim involving food poisoning
  • Claims of elder abuse by assisted living facility
  • Wrongful injury claim against Chase Center’s insufficient railing
  • Claims of negligence regarding a motor vehicle accident
  • Bodily injury claim involving severe burns, including against Peet’s Coffee Shop for hot liquid spilled on a minor
  • Numerous claims of sexual abuse, assault and battery, including against multiple school districts
  • Personal injury matter in which an autonomous vehicle, operated by Cruise, LLC, struck, pinned a pedestrian under the vehicle
  • Federal Tort Claims Act case involving a vehicle collision by a truck owned and operated by the United States Bureau of Reclamation
  • Numerous personal injury claims involving motor vehicle accidents 
Business Commercial
• • Hawaiian retail chain’s computer defect claim against national accounting firm
  • Franchisor-franchisee disputes
  • Municipality’s False Claims Act against long-term tow and storage contractor
  • Interfamily dispute over the management and control of a family-owned business
  • Breach of contract dispute involving an insurance brokerage’s restrictive noncompete covenant 
Real Property
• • Numerous disputes between landlords and tenants, including claims of wrongful eviction 
Insurance
• • Insurance bad faith and major subrogation claims
  • Insurance coverage dispute
  • Insurance claims arising from a wrongful death case involving a collision between a motorcycle and box truck 
Professional Liability
• • Legal, accountancy, dental, and medical malpractice claims
  • Professional negligence and sexual abuse claims against a chiropractor
  • Professional liability and negligence claims against tax service provider
  • Professional malpractice claims against an accountant
  • Medical malpractice claims against Sutter Valley Hospitals 
Product Liability
• • Regional Transit District's claim against manufacturer regarding defective bus fleet 
  • Product liability defect class actions
  • Product liability and negligence claim alleging a Lithium-Ion battery resulted in destruction by fire of a city bus
  • Product liability claim involving a large commercial van
  • Medical product liability and negligence dispute claiming serious and debilitating injuries caused by the gadolinium-based contrast agent injected for diagnostic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
  • Product liability claim involving a large commercial van 
   
Employment Law
• • Numerous employment and wage & hour disputes, including claims brought under the Private Attorney General Act (PAGA)
  • Employment and product defect class actions
  • Employment dispute involving sexual assault
  • Numerous employment discrimination disputes involving claims of discrimination and/or harassment, under The Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), based on gender, race and/or disability, as well as claims of wrongful termination, retaliation, and failure to accommodate
  • Breach of contract employment dispute between account executive and company alleging breach of contract, retaliation, and demotion 
Agribusiness & Food Law
• • Price disputes between California agricultural growers and canners 
Construction Defect
• • Construction defect claims including school auditorium and municipality's $40 million water system defect claims
  • Breach of contract claim against owner for non-payment of costs after termination of construction contract with contractor
  • Construction defect dispute involving water damage and negligence 
Class Action
• • Class action involving the Fair Debt Collection Act
  • Class action involving a utility operations business
  • Class action involving wage and hour claims and hiring discrimination (based on gender and/or race) against a linen retailer
  • Personal injury class action involving Manganese related health claims by 52 bridge welders