Attorneys in the News Archive

• CAOC member Carl A. McMahan on KABC-radio talking about California’s $250,000 MICRA cap on human suffering in medical malpractice cases (12/19/12)
• Former CAOC President Christopher B. Dolan wins malpractice case against prominent San Francisco cardiologist (09/17/12)
• CAOC incoming president Brian Kabateck lays waste to U.S. Chamber’s junk opinion research in KQED Forum radio appearance (09/11/12)
• CAOC member Ricardo Echeverria wins compensation for inventor who was cut out of profit-sharing agreement  (08/07/12)
• Robert Allard: protecting children from sexual abuse at the hands of coaches and other caretakers. (Northern California Super Lawyers 2012) (08/01/12)
• San Bernardino jury finds Caltrans partially responsible for dangerous intersection; CAOC member Greg Bentley wins verdict to provide lifetime 24-hour nursing care for injured motorcyclist.  (07/24/12)
• San Diego consumer attorney Tim Blood makes the case for why “Made in the U.S.A.” needs to mean just that – to protect both consumers and honest companies that play fair.  (07/10/12)
• San Diego attorney Tim Blood powers class action settlement against Sketchers shoes for false advertising that marks the largest payout to consumers in Federal Trade Commission history.  (05/16/12)
• O’Reilly Collins wins $4.6 million verdict in insurance bad faith case involving theft of copper wire from warehouse. (05/04/12)
• San Francisco attorney Jeff Mitchell holds medical clinic accountable for Bay Area mom rendered quadriplegic by medical negligence. (03/22/12)
• CAOC Vice President Brian Kabateck and member Mark Geragos win $8 million verdict for elderly Hollywood Hills resident whose home was nearly destroyed when a dump truck crashed into it. (03/18/12)
• Kasdan Simonds Weber & Vaughan LLP helps retirement community homeowners gain big arbitration victory in construction defect case at Sun City in Arizona. (03/07/12)
• Sacramento woman gets $168M for sexual harassment claim  (03/1/12)
• San Francisco attorney Christopher B. Dolan continues the legal fight on behalf of a 5-year-old autistic boy who authorities say was abused by a special education teacher (02/15/12)
• San Francisco attorney Christopher B. Dolan fights for the rights of an autistic school boy whose father says he was abused by a teacher (02/09/12)
• CAOC President Niall McCarthy applauds state Supreme Court for upholding legislative district lines adopted by citizens commission (01/27/12) (pdf)
• Military concedes in lawsuit seeking justice for victims of jet crash that killed four in SD home - Plaintiffs represented by CAOC member Brian Panish (1/3/12)
• KGO-TV spotlights Niall McCarthy’s community service (11/15/11)
• San Diego consumer attorney Tim Blood wins refunds for embattled Los Angeles residents who were overcharged by the city’s Department of Water and Power (8/19/11)
• A 20-year retrospective on the legacy of the horrific 1991 Sacramento River spill, a case litigated by Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein of San Francisco (pdf)
• Profile of Sacramento attorney Wendy York, from her first foray into private practice to her role in elder abuse cases (pdf)
• CAOC attorney Scott Sumner profiled in Plaintiff magazine
• Redding attorney Dugan Barr scores victory in crosswalk lawsuit (News10, 3/29/11)
• CAOC member Rex Parris gets national news coverage for his “melodic” efforts as mayor of Lancaster, Calif.
• Hal Rosner and Hawk Barry win big victory in case against San Diego car dealer back dating financial contracts; Judge orders more than 1,500 cars bought back
• Daily Journal article describing case of Wells Fargo, acting as a home trustee, selling a foreclosed home without revealing dangerous mold and other issues (pdf) 
• CAOC Vice President Brian Kabateck is profiled in Southern California Super Lawyers 2011 
• LA Business Journal story on James D. Daily’s case revealing the sullied side of an estate scam that victimized a prominent Southern California dairy family (LA Business Journal, 1/17/11, pdf)
• Daily Journal profile of CAOC President John Montevideo (1/10/11) (pdf)
• Fresno jury awards $9m in Highway 180 wreck (10/21/10)
• Chris Dolan represents transgender golfer (Ashby Jones, WSJ blog, 10/13/10)
• “The Reformer”: Ray Boucher’s fight to win justice for victims of sexual abuse at the hands of California priests led him to be named one of the Daily Journal’s “10 lawyers who influenced the decade.” (9/22/10)
• CAOC fights to make service of process easier when out-of-state car renters cause harm (Ciaran McEvoy, Daily Journal, 6/25/10)
• CAOC Past President Mark Robinson leads the fight against Toyota (Stuart Pfeifer, Los Angeles Times, 6/18/10)
• Suit filed by CAOC member John Kristensen that revealed Toyota was dealing with cracking and breaking steering relay rods for *12 YEARS* before recalling nearly a million trucks in the U.S. that had the problem (James R. Healey, USA Today, 6/13/10)
• Component Parts Defense: Who's Protected? (Carolin K. Shining, Daily Journal, 6/2/10)
• Dangerous Auto Defect Reported on by FOX 11 News and Brian Chase (Fox11 LA, 5/20/10)
• CAOC-sponsored AB 2486 would “put parents on notice that they ought to know better than to allow or encourage underage drinking” (Greg Kane, Daily Journal, 5/20/10)
• Ads Soliciting Plaintiffs Are Protected, California Supreme Court Says (Laura Ernde, Daily Journal, 05/18/10)
• San Diego attorney Tim Blood, a CAOC board member, jousts with great success with talk-radio KOGO-AM’s Chris Reed on topics ranging from the defibrillator bill to the Ford Explorer settlement (5/13/10)
• Jeff Mitchell is representing the family in this medical malpractice case involving a 32-year-old father of six who died of swine flu last October. The family believes the hospital failed to properly diagnose or treat Johnny Duerksen. (appealdemocrat.com 5/13/10)
• The Recorder on the Chris Dolan-inspired "yak" bill, which doesn't protect bovine but DOES better protect folks hit by errant rental car drivers from out-of-state (who are often difficult to find and serve with a legal challenge). (Cheryl Miller, The Recorder, 4/30/10)
• Brian Kabateck and Evan Zucker opine in the Daily Journal on federal law trumping state class action rules (Daily Journal, Brian Kabateck and Evan Zucker, 4/7/10)
• The Daily Journal profiles 2010 Consumer Attorneys Assn. of Los Angeles President Garo Mardirossian (Daily Journal, Catherine Ho, 4/7/10)
• First Come Fire, Then Comes Rain (Perspective, Daily Journal, Brian Kabateck and Frances Ma, 3/19/10)
• Jonathan Stein talks litigation on the radio with Armstrong and Getty (3/4/10)
• EHarmony settles class-action suit brought by gays and lesbians (LA Times 1/27/10)
• Casey Gerry's Thomas Luneau Lauded By Consumer Attorneys Of San Diego  (11/5/09)
• Jury Rules Against Radio Station After Water-Drinking Contest Kills Calif. Mom (11/2/09)
• San Diego Lawyer David S. Casey, Jr. is Recipient of Pursuit of Justice Award (American Bar Assn, 9/2/09)
• Toyota concealed evidence in rollover cases, ex-attorney alleges (LA Times, W.J. Hennigan, 9/1/09)
• Toyota May Face Push to Reopen Rollover-Crash Cases (Update1) (Bloomberg.com, Laurence Viele Davidson, 9/1/09)
• Gov. Schwarzenegger Signs Tort Reforms Into Law (Law.com, Amanda Bronstad, The National Law Journal, 8/18/09)
• Leah Garchik writes about Fred Hiestand’s class action lawsuit - (SF Gate, 8/18/09)
• Airplane air toxic? (CNN Video 8/17/09)
• Foe of class-action suits files one of his own (LA Times, 8/17/09)
• Tort Reform Leader Brings Class Action Over Towed Car (Law.com, Cheryl Miller, The Recorder, 8/14/09)
• Tort Reformer Wants His Day in Court (Mother Jones, Dave Gilson, 8/14/09)
• Letter regarding Californians Allied for Patient Protection (Daily Journal, Lawrence Strick letter to the editor, 8/14/09)
• Brian Chase Named Among Top Lawyers in Orange County By OC Metro As featured in this month's OC Metro magazine, Brian Chase, a partner at the Orange County personal injury law firm of Bisnar | Chase (www.BestAttorney.com), has been listed as one of the top lawyers in Orange County and one of the top five personal injury lawyers in the county. (OC Metro 8/10/09)
• New twist in battle over oceanfront land near Malibu A Los Angeles Superior Court judge finds that a developer threatened and tried to cheat an elderly former aircraft company owner out of the property. (LA Times 8/7/09)
• In Re Tobacco II Cases
  • Calif. top court revives class action against tobacco industry (LA Times 5/19/09)
  • Class-action lawsuit over tobacco ads proceeds (SF Chronicle 5/19/09)
• Sen. Tony Strickland casts an independent vote (5/18/09)
• A major lawsuit is filed against AIG (LA Times 5/18/09)
• Dealing with the Foreclosure Boom (CAOC Forum, May/June 2009)