Southern California Injury Law Blog

A recent article in the Los Angeles Times reported that the City of Costa Mesa paid an unusual sum to settle a claim of wrongful killing of a family dog, $225,000. This represents a sizable amount if considered alone, even for a family pet loss. Some crime victims have not received such a high settlement or verdict for wrongful death claims of their family members. Here is a video on prevention.

So why did the City of Costa Mesa pay so much?

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By Brian Lew of Allen, Flatt, Ballidis & Leslie

Look in the yellow pages or take note of television advertising during the middle of the day. What you will find there are a multitude of lawyers. Interestingly, the vast majority are personal injury lawyers. Why is that? When viewing television dramas about the courtroom, you never see personal injury lawyers. There have been hundreds of shows about criminal lawyers, prosecutors and defense lawyers, but if you wanted to locate a prosecutor or defense lawyer in the phone book, you would be hard pressed to find one.

In any yellow page book the personal injury section has by far the most advertisers. Is it that there are more injuries than crimes? Maybe so, but the main reason there are so may personal injury lawyers is because few claims are handled fairly by insurance carriers. If the insurance adjusters handled the claims fairly, they would put the personal injury lawyers out of business. You wouldn’t need one.

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