Southern California Injury Law Blog

How do you prove that an injury, that did not show symptoms for more than 4 weeks after an accident, is accident related? That was the problem facing a recent client, whose case settled last week.

While operating his motorcycle on a roadway in Huntington Beach, an adverse driver turned left into his path causing him to have to lay down his motorcycle, hurting his knee. Liability was clear and injury at the scene did not seem to be anything more than scrapes and road rash after the accident. There was however a small bruise on the knee, that our office photographed out of caution..

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Imagine the worst. Your child has just died in an automobile accident. But in the aftermath you now discover that your child’s gory accident photos are now scattered all over the internet. Is this a matter of protecting the privacy of the family or free speech?

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It took the death of a 15 year old California girl, Brandi Mitock, to pass a law requiring elderly drivers to take a written and road test at age 75 or older here in California. She was killed by a 96 year old motorist that hadn’t taken a road test since 1918-- that was day he received his driver’s license! Although rules in states vary greatly, here in California, after age 70, no driver may get automatic renewals through the mail. Is this a case of age discrimination like many see it? Or is it a safety measure geared to save lives here in California? Let’s look at the facts and you can decide.

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Orange County California: Our office was retained by a recent victim of Salmonella poisoning caused by ingesting peanut butter produced by ConAgra. The case is simple, within an hour of ingesting peanut butter, she had to go to the hospital where she suffered greatly, and if not for the heroics of the hospital staff, she would have died. No one knew what the cause of the illness was until days later when a recall came of the peanut butter she had ingested. When our client's husband checked the jar, opened and used the day of her illness, it was in fact the recalled product. Thank goodness none of their children had ingested the product. We represent victims of personal injury and product liability.

Our office put ConAgra on notice of the claim and tested the product by an independent lab. Testing confirmed the presence of Salmonella. ConAgra did nothing to investigate and ignored our client's claim. Over $25,000 in medical expenses were incurred and one would think ConAgra would do the right thing and adjust the claim. Not so.

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Allen, Flatt, Ballidis & Leslie this month settled a claim against an adverse driver for $1.25 Million Dollars. The head-on auto accident occurred in Northern California where the case was eventually litigated. Our client sustained a severe "Pilon" fracture injury to one ankle and a broken leg and wrist. She was not able to work as a teacher for 6 months, and incurred $90,000 in medical bills paid by her health insurance.

The Defendant contended that our client made a good recovery and had modest residual symptoms that did not warrant more than $400,000 in settlement. The Defendant also contended he was not liable, but cut off by another vehicle, a claim that was proven to be false. There was also inadequate insurance coverage.

The firm of Allen, Flatt, Ballidis & Leslie located a second, one-million dollar excess policy, and with underlying coverage, was able to satisfactorily settle the client's case for $1,250,000. Congratulations to James Ballidis & Suzanne Leslie of the firm for their hard work and successful outcome.

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A Small Girl with Preexisting Seizure Disorder recovers for recent Exacerbation. A three-year-old client of the firm was involved in a rearend automobile accident. She had a significant preexisting history of seizures due to premature birth. While under control, her seizure disorder continued to dampen her learning abilities and she was under accelerated care at the time of the accident.

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The Firm recently hired Michael Mazal, a veteran trial attorney with 17 years jury trial experience in personal injury, casualty and insurance litigation. Mr. Mazal will be lead counsel in several of the firms high profile cases approaching trial.

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The firm gets a positive result for an auto accident victim. We are pleased to report our recent binding arbitration result for one of our auto accident victims. A woman in her 40's was involved in a collision that caused neck and low back injury. She incurred about $10,000 in medical bills but no wage loss.

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