$7,000,000

Rear-Ended Auto Accident

Brain Injury 

7 year old girl passenger in a car, rear-ended by a work truck & suffered brain injuries.

$3,200,000

Fall Accident

Traumatic Brain Injury

Our client fell down a trap hatch in the floor of a house while touring the “open house” for sale resulting in a mild traumatic brain injury. This case was denied/disputed and aggressively litigated. 

$1,700,000

Animal Attack

Serious Injury

Our client was attacked by a wild animal resulting in serious injuries. The case was denied/disputed & aggressively litigated. 

$700,000

Rideshare Accident

Serious Injuries

Our client was a passenger in a rideshare vehicle involved in a crash. She suffered serious injuries and there were multiple claims. The responsible party was uninsured. 

$1,000,000

Near Drowning Incident

Near drowning at a privately owned public swimming pool, Our client was 14 years old. He did not know how to swim. His father took him to a privately owned public swimming pool. His father allowed him to enter the pool without his supervision, relying on the owner’s lifeguard to protect him. Our client nearly drowned, but was rescued several minutes later after sinking to the bottom of the pool and becoming unconscious. Our client suffered brain damage. The defendant private owner’s insurance aggressively denied liability and refused to pay the claim. After extensive litigation and discovery and multiple depositions and expert retention, we convinced the insurer to do the right thing and tender its policy limit of $1,000,000.00.

$1,000,000

Fatal Motorcycle Accident

Our client’s adult son was killed in a head-on accident while driving his motorcycle on a windy canyon road. The other party stated that our client was on the wrong side of the road, and a witness also stated that our client was on the wrong side of the road. The police report concluded our client was on the wrong side of the road. Two attorneys rejected the case before the family hired our firm. We conducted an extensive informal accident reconstruction, scene investigation, and re-interviewed the witness and consulted with a motorcycle accident expert. We successfully settled the case for the other party’s insurance policy limit of $1,000,000.

$975,000

Police Shooting Accident

We represented the victim of a Police shooting case. Our client suffered extremely serious injuries. We referred the handling and federal prosecution of this extremely complex case to one of our fellow Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles member/associates. He aggressively and creatively litigated this case and settled it for $975,000.00.

$600,000

Motor Vehicle Accident

Car Accidents

Our clients were driving on the highway in Merced at night time when it was dark, when a 2000 lb. black cow crossed the roadway directly in front of their car. Our clients were unable to avoid striking the cow.. Two other vehicles also struck the cow. Our clients suffered serious injuries including back surgery. After extensive pre-litigation discovery we were able to identify the cow by its brand and connect it to its owner, a nearby rancher.

Our investigation further revealed that the fence surrounding the rancher’s property was in a state of disrepair, permitting his cattle to stray off his property and onto the adjacent roadway. Fortunately the cattle rancher was insured for this particular type of occurrence. While the insurance company disputed liability and the nature and extent of the injuries, we filed a lawsuit and aggressively litigated the case. We successfully negotiated a settlement of the case for $600,000.00 prior to mediation, arbitration or trial, saving our clients thousands of dollars as well as the risk of losing or receiving less from a Jury in Modesto.

$486,000

Auto Accident

Car Accidents

Our client was involved in a car accident when the other party pulled out of a driveway directly into her path resulting in a moderate impact collision. As a result, our client’s car was damages and she suffered back and neck injuries requiring neck surgery. Even though the police report placed the other party at fault, the other party’s insurance company disputed the claim based on liability/fault, and injuries.

We demanded settlement prior to filing a lawsuit and the other party’s insurance company offered $15,000.000 to settle the case. We were forced to file a lawsuit and aggressively litigate the case. After extensive litigation and discovery we convince the insurance company to do the right thing and settle our client’s case for its full value in the amount of $486,000.00. Mediation, arbitration or Trial was not necessary. This saved our client thousands of dollars in costs as well as the delay and uncertainty associated with trial.

$475,000

Kennth/Andrew Settled at Mediation

Our clients were both passengers in a rideshare vehicle in San Francisco, which a motorist crashed into the rear of the vehicle they occupied. Both suffered serious injuries, and neither received much medical care or follow up. The defendant that caused the accident only carried a minimum limit of liability coverage auto policy in the amount of 15000 and 30,000 per person. there were outer claimants so that 30,000 were divided by multiple claimants. We proceeded against the Underinsured motorist coverage for the rideshare company.. the insurance claims people disputed the value of the case and only offered an additional 15,000 for each client, arguing that because they didn’t have much follow up medical care, their cases weren’t worth much more compensation. We filed a demand for UIM arbitration and conducted extensive discovery and ultimately mediated the case and proved the value and settled the case for the sum of $475,000.

$408,000

Premises Liability

Premises Liability. Landlord tenant. A 7 year old girls was playing in her backyard for the small apartment building her family rented. The back yard abutted an alley. She tried to close a large 40 foot long 8 foot high wrought iron sliding gate which enclosed the backyard. The gate was defective and fell off its track onto the little girl causing a serious head injury. She required multiple stitches and was left with a 3 inch scar down the middle of her forehead. The landlord’s insurance company denied the claim. The property owners/ landlord denied responsibility. We filed a lawsuit and conducted extremely aggressive discovery. We went to mediation and the defendant’s insurance carrier offered $20,000 to settle the little girls claim. We rejected it and kept fight. Eventually we went to 2 settlement conferences with a judge and the defense and insurance company never offered more than $50,000. I went to trial. We had 6 experts and 10 witnesses. The defense had 4 experts. We won the trial and the verdict was for $408,000.00. We were able to structure her money to protect her and provide for her in her adults years.

$300,000

Sacramento Dog Bite Case

This was a case involving our client (who was referred to our law firm by a very well known personal injury firm to litigate and resolve. When we got the case, all we knew was that our client had been attacked by a dog and the tip of his nose was bit resulting in surgery. The dispute was whether any insurance existed to cover the loss. After 2 years of litigation and extensive discovery, and unraveling the relationships between the dog owner, the parent of the dog owner, the homeowner and a tenant, we were able to establish liability and insurance coverage and convinced the insurance claims supervisor and defense attorney to do the right thing and pay the policy limit of 300,000.00 who so badly deserved it.

$300,000

Premises Liability

Maria P. was an 84 year old woman who was shopping at a local market with her daughter. She was pushing a shopping cart through the checkout stand and ultimately pushed it through the front doors intending on going to her car which was parked in the parking lot immediately outside of the market. After she pushed the cart outside, one of the wheels got stuck in a large hole or defect, on the walkway, immediately outside of the store. Maria P. attempted to prevent her shopping cart filled with items that she just purchased from tipping over. She was unable to do so and while she was struggling with the cart, and in the process of it tipping over, she fell and fractured her hip.

Maria P. presented a claim against the insurance company for the market and they denied her claim and refused to take any responsibility whatsoever for the dangerous condition which they knew existed immediately out in front of their property on the walkway. Ms. P. hired the Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus.

We investigated the claim thoroughly by having our investigators go to the scene, measure the defects, photograph the dangerous condition, inspect the shopping carts, diagram the scene, and interview independent witnesses as well as store employee witnesses.

We presented a comprehensive and extensive as well as detailed and thorough demand for settlement letter and package of materials on behalf of Maria P. which included all of her surgery records. Initially, the insurance company for the local market refused to take responsibility and denied the claim. We were forced to file a Superior Court lawsuit and aggressively litigated the case accordingly. After extensive discovery, we convinced the defense attorneys for the insurance company for the local market to attend a private mediation. We successfully negotiated a settlement of Maria P.’s premises liability bodily injury claim for damages for approximately $300,000.00.

$265,000

Child Struck by Car

Child struck by a car in a crosswalk.

Settled for $265,000.00

$250,000

Premises Liability

Our client, a young man was skateboarding through a shopping center parking lot when the wheels on his skateboard hit a crack/defect in the ground causing him to fall off the board and suffer a broken arm requiring surgery. This case was denied from the begining. We conducted aggressive, extensive litigation and discovery and proved that the shopping center knew or should have known about the defect in the ground and knew or should have anticipated skateboarded riding through the parking lot. We were able to settle the case at mediation for 250,000.00

$200,000

Pedestrian vs. Auto Accident

Our client, an 80-year-old man, was crossing the street in a crosswalk when a city employee driving a truck failed to see him while finishing a left turn. The truck struck our client, causing fractured ribs and other injuries. The city denied the claim, so we filed a lawsuit and conducted extensive discovery. We settled the case at mediation for more than $200,000.00

$175,000

Car Accident Injury

Small Difficult Cases Other Attorneys Rejected

Our client was a passenger in a car that lost control and drove off the road flipping over resulting in injuries. The insurance companies argued our client wasn’t wearing his seatbelt. Extensive discovery and negotiations were performed. The case was settled.

$130,000

Rear-End Accident With Back Injuries

Small Difficult Cases Other Attorneys Rejected

Our client sustained back injuries in a rear-end accident with minimal impact and property damage. We litigated extensively but did not receive any offers until mediation. The case was settled for $130,000.