Wrongful Death

Motorcyclist killed by city truck at intersection. $7M. Los Angeles County.

Motorcyclist dies when he collides with City of Covina truck. Plaintiff had lowered pre-trial demand to $1 million after CCP 998.

 

  • Case Name: Laura Asencio v. City of Covina, et al.
  • Date of Verdict or Judgment: Monday, October 29, 2018
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Police shooting results in wrongful death claim. Defense. Santa Clara County.

Police shoot a murder suspect, believing him to be armed.

  • Case Name: Jacquez v. City of San Jose, Jacob Morris
  • Date of Verdict or Judgment: Monday, September 10, 2018
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Pedestrian hit by vehicle dies. $4.5M. Los Angeles County.

Pedestrian struck by company vehicle in crosswalk.

  • Case Name: Tran v. TNT USA, INC.
  • Date of Verdict or Judgment: Friday, August 31, 2018
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Auto accident blamed for fatal heart attack. Retrial. Defense verdict. Riverside County.

66-year-old man dies of heart attack at hospital where he was taken following an auto accident. Trial on causation.

  • Case Name: Ruth Gougeon, Steven Gougeon, Madeline Gougeon, Nicole Shuey v. Guy Parks
  • Date of Verdict or Judgment: Thursday, May 24, 2018
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Plaintiff's mother dies in fire. Cause disputed. $3M. San Francisco County.

Apartment fire blamed on faulty wiring, lack of maintenance.

  • Case Name: Aurora Belo Black and Maria Lourdes Ramona S. Belo v. BallyHallinan Family, LLC
  • Date of Verdict or Judgment: Monday, May 07, 2018
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Worker dies operating rock-crushing machine. $30 million. Los Angeles County.

Employee dies after being pulled into rock crushing machine when guards are removed.

  • Case Name: Anaya v. General Equipment & Supplies. Inc, et al.
  • Date of Verdict or Judgment: Monday, March 19, 2018
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Failure to warn of traffic danger is claimed when motorcyclist dies. $5 million. Los Angeles County.

Restaurant patron turns the wrong way out of parking lot onto one-way highway.

  • Case Name: Eileen Annocki and Joseph Annocki, Sr. v. Peterson Enterpises, LLC dba Geoffrey’s Malibu and Terry Allen Turner, et al.
  • Date of Verdict or Judgment: Friday, December 08, 2017
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Aspiration warnings for 73-year-old hospital patient ignored by staff. $1.7M. Los Angeles County.

Medical negligence by nursing staff is blamed for death when patient aspirates food in rehab program after neck surgery.

  • Case Name: Higgins v. Providence Health System – Southern California dba Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center San Pedro
  • Date of Verdict or Judgment: Friday, April 14, 2017
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Excessive force claimed when 7 officers respond to vandalism call. Wrongful shooting death. $2 million. Los Angeles County.

Intoxicated man, unarmed, provokes police with broomsticks and rocks. Nonlethal-force options were deployed, but one officer ends up shooting him.

  • Case Name: Ramirez v. LAPD
  • Date of Verdict or Judgment: Wednesday, March 29, 2017
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Wrongful death in hotel room. $5 million settlement after bench verdict. Los Angeles County.

Man dies in hotel room from carbon monoxide poisoning; faulty pool heater blamed.

  • Case Name: Ruf v. Palm Canyon Hotels, Inc.
  • Date of Verdict or Judgment: Monday, March 06, 2017
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Minor children sue mother for murder of their father. $10 million bench verdict. Los Angeles County.

Estranged wife found guilty of second degree murder of her husband is sued by their minor children.

  • Case Name: Lauren Mora, et al. v. Socorro Paz Mora
  • Date of Verdict or Judgment: Monday, November 07, 2016
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911 call results in police shooting/killing young man. $2.2 million. Los Angeles County.

Young African-American with knives is tasered by one officer and shot by another after family calls police because he is threatening to kill himself.

  • Case Name: Eaddy v. City of Los Angeles
  • Date of Verdict or Judgment: Tuesday, August 02, 2016
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Construction worker falls to his death from concrete form. $26.9 million. Los Angeles County.

Construction worker on top of a concrete form panel falls when panel collapses. Liability is disputed among contractors.

  • Case Name: Rosa B. Gonzalez, Aaron E. Gonzalez and Atarah E. Gonzalez v. Atlas Construction Supply, Inc.
  • Date of Verdict or Judgment: Wednesday, July 20, 2016
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Fatal highway accident blamed on faulty manufacture of motor home. Defense verdict. Sonoma County.

Family members killed when their car skids on fluid in roadway; fluid leak blamed on motor home found disabled nearby.  Plaintiffs claim defective design and  manufacture of motor home.

  • Case Name: Menera v. Country Coach Corporation & Mega RV Corp., et al., consolidated with Ayala, et al., v. Country Coach Corporation & Mega RV Corp., et al.
  • Date of Verdict or Judgment: Tuesday, May 17, 2016
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Cyclist veers into path of car and is hit; later run over by truck. Wrongful death. Santa Cruz County.

A farmworker is struck by a car at dawn while riding his bike to work.  Alive and lying in the road, he is run over by a truck.

  • Case Name: Martinez-Sanchez v. Ahlem
  • Date of Verdict or Judgment: Friday, April 08, 2016
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Head-on collision kills plaintiffs' daughter. $3.5 million. San Bernardino County.

Defendant driver says she's entitled to sudden emergency defense as her vehicle came into contact with gravel on the highway shoulder.

  • Case Name: Arsenio D. Madero Jr., as an individual, and as a successor in interest of DJ Mariah Madero, deceased; Eloisa Madero; as an individual, and as a successor in interest of DJ Mariah Madero, deceased v. Mercedes Devoney Broughton, an individual, et al.
  • Date of Verdict or Judgment: Thursday, February 04, 2016
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