July 16, 2017
Jury Awards Priest Reasonable Damages for Failed Lumbar Disc Surgery
July 2017, Scott Macdonald successfully defended claims brought by a Priest who was involved in a freeway collision and claimed life-long back complaints. Defendant contended that she was driving on the freeway and was rear-ended by plaintiff’s vehicle. An independent witness, the police officer and plaintiff claimed that defendant made an unsafe lane change in the path of plaintiff...Read More
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May 3, 2017
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
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April 10, 2017
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
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April 8, 2017
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
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March 18, 2017
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
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