May 10, 2018
Jury Refuses to Award Costs for Unnecessary Surgery and Alleged Brain Damage
May 2018, Plaintiff sought $6,500,000 at trial for a knee surgery, lumbar fusion and alleged traumatic brain injury. The jury awarded just over $41,000, substantially less that our pre-trial offer of $300,000. We were entitled Section 998 costs. The net result achieved by Scott Macdonald with trial support from Laura Reichenbach was a “walk-away”. Our client was a trucking company. The...Read More
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March 14, 2018
Unreasonable Leap of Faith – What are friends for?
March 2018, Scott Macdonald with trial support from Laura Reichenbach obtained a defense verdict in Orange County for an incident where an independent contractor fell from a scaffold at our client’s place of business. We represented a small business owner. He hired a friend to assist with repairing the box on a bob tail truck. Our client’s friend utilized a mobile scaffold to work on the...Read More
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February 10, 2018
Severe Accident with Continuing Psychological Trauma
February 2018, Plaintiff sought over $3,000,000 after our client, an employee of an entertainment company, rear-ended his motorcycle on the freeway. Plaintiff required a knee surgery which we conceded was caused by the accident. Plaintiff also claimed that he had serious psychological problems including the need to use the restroom every time that he got into an automobile. Plaintiff refused...Read More
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January 10, 2018
Reasonable Result For Cervical Fusion Surgery
January 2018, Our client, a business that operates tractor trailers was sued after one of its drivers rear-ended a vehicle in which plaintiff was a rear-seat passenger. The damage to the vehicles was significant. We admitted liability and Scott Macdonald tried the matter on damages. The plaintiff was a 28-year-old marketing representative and photographer. He underwent a cervical fusion...Read More
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November 3, 2017
Policy Limit Settlement at Trial
November 2017, Scott Macdonald and Michael Cody obtained a policy limits settlement during trial. This was a unique case in which a low-impact case had been settled for $500 following the collision. The validity of the release was challenged. The carrier subsequently tendered the volume of the $15,000 policy limits. Despite the low-impact nature of the collision, the plaintiff underwent a...Read More
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