Results and Verdicts

Successful Prosecution of Declaratory Relief Action

May 2017, Scott Macdonald received an award in favor of his client in Murrieta, California in a Declaratory Relief matter in which our client sought the Court to find that it had no duty to defend and indemnify an action for wrongful death for a murder/suicide. Policy holder shot and killed his significant other and then turned his weapon on himself.  The heirs of the policy holder’s...Read More

San Jose Plaintiff Gives Jury Headache But Gets Nothing For His

April 2017, Michael Cody represented an 84-year-old client who turned left in front of the plaintiff in a trial in San Jose, CA.  Plaintiff was a 54-year old Pakastani immigrant who had worked as an auto mechanic before severing multiple fingers in a saw accident in his backyard 4 years before the accident from which he had been rendered totally disabled.  Plaintiff claimed to have uncurable...Read More

Magic Flying Mattress Case and a Defense Verdict

April 2017, Scott Macdonald with the assistance of Laura Reichenbach received a defense verdict in Long Beach after a jury found that defendants were not negligent. Defendants were the owner and operator of a hauling business.  Defendant was on his way to pick up some plants from a nursery on the 101 freeway in the Woodland Hills area when plaintiff alleged that a mattress flew out of the back...Read More

Tragic Accident but Defense Verdict

March 2017, Scott Macdonald obtained a defense verdict for our client in San Bernardino after a hotly contested two-month trial. Defendant was driving home from a church retreat with three passengers.  She was in a rural desert area with a two-lane road.  Defendant encountered a vehicle which had come across the center line and into her lane.  Defendant took evasive action which forced her...Read More

Defense Verdict in Automobile Versus Pedestrian Accident

December 2016, Scott Macdonald and Laura Reichenbach obtained a defense verdict in Orange County in a truck versus pedestrian collision. Defendants were a mechanic and his employer.  Defendant driver was on his way to a designated job location in the early morning hours in his company vehicle.  He was on Beach Boulevard in Anaheim which has four lanes in each direction separated by a median....Read More