Case Results
California Dog Bite Lawyers
The cases set forth below are a sampling of results
achieved for our clients. This is a partial list and
does not constitute a promise of any kind. Please remember
that these cases and the results achieved were determinant
on many factors and results differ from case to case
depending on the circumstances particular to each instance.
The law firm of Bisnar | Chase is dedicated to
each client receiving the absolute best legal representation
possible.
| $250,000 |
Premises Liability,
closed head injury. |
| Confidential Settlement |
Auto Products Liability
case against Daimler Chrysler Motor Company and
the rental car agency that rented a 15-passenger
van to a group of friends going from Los Angeles
to Las Vegas for a birthday party. The fifteen
passenger, Ram 350, van rolled over, roof crushed,
seat belts failed and passengers ejected. Multiple
deaths and serious injuries. |
| Confidential Settlement |
Auto
Products Liability case against Ford Motor Company
and the rental car agency that rented a 15-passenger
van to a church group traveling from Southern
California to Northern California for a church
function. The fifteen passenger, F350, van rolled
over, roof crushed, seat belts failed and passengers
ejected. Multiple deaths and serious injuries. |
| Confidential Settlement |
Negligence case
against an aircraft rental company due to their
plane crashing on take off, killing the pilot
and one passenger and severely injuring another
passenger. |
| Confidential Settlement |
Auto Products Liability
case against Ford Motor Company and the maker
of a failed seatbelt, TRW. Negligence case against
U-Haul the renter of the truck that caused the
accident for negligent maintenance and failing
to instruct the driver. Auto vs. Auto negligence
case against the driver of the U-Haul truck. A
minor child was paralyzed and eventually died
as a result of a three vehicle collision involving
two Ford Explorers, both rolled-over, a seat belt
failure (false latching) and the failure of the
roof of one of the Explorers. Driver injured due
to roof crush. |
| Confidential Settlement |
On the job injury,
products liability case against supplier of materials
that “exploded” when worker was cutting
55 gallon drums for disposal. Worker suffered
third degree burns to 75% of the front of his
body. |
| $3 Million+ |
Motorcycle vs. Auto
Accident. Client’s previous attorney insisted
that client settle case for the $15,000 policy
limit of the negligent auto driver. Case was eventually
settled for cash up front, an annuity (a stream
of guaranteed payments for life) and payment of
the workers’ compensation insurance reimbursement
rights. (See below for full
story*). |
| Confidential Settlement |
Auto Products Liability
case against General Motors for the roll over
and roof crush of a Tahoe resulting in the death
of the driver and a passenger. |
| $2,815,958 |
Judgement in a construction work site
accident case against the builder of a fence that
collapsed and injured two workers and the loss of
consortium rights of the wife of one of the workers. |
| $2.5 Million |
Premises Liability
case against State of California, Department of
Parks and Recreation. State was negligent in the
maintenance of trees at Lake Perris. A eucalyptus
tree limb fell (summer branch drop) on park visitor
causing paralysis. Client’s previous law
firm, after representing client for eight months,
told the client she “had no case”
and gave her back her file before bring it to
Bisnar | Chase. |
| Confidential Settlement |
Auto Products Liability
case against Ford Motor Company for failure of
front seat system which resulted in the death
of a child rear seat passenger in a 30 mile an
hour rear end impact auto accident. |
| $1,425,000 |
Auto accident caused
by dangerous condition left on freeway by CalTrans
(State of California) contractors resulting in
the death of two teenagers. |
| $1,250,000+ |
Auto vs auto accident
which included a failure of client’s (the
driver) restraint system (seat belt anchor). Within
fifty days of being hired and through the diligence
and tenacity of the law firm’s staff, insurance
policies were located and policy limit settlements
were arranged. (this was partially due our reputation
with the insurance companies and their attorneys).
We are now proceeding against Nissan Motors on
the products liability claim and seeking punitive
damages. The seat belt anchor system was designed
so weak that it evidenced “a conscience
disregard” for the safety of the seat belt
user. |
| $1,000,000+ |
Auto vs. Auto accident
with two spinal surgeries. Collected defendant
driver’s policy limit. Won a binding arbitration
award for the policy maximum from the injured
tow truck driver’s employer’s insurance
company. Settled an “insurance bad faith”
lawsuit against the employer’s auto insurance
company for their failure to fairly handle the
initial uninsured motorist claim costing the client
nearly a year time delay in a resolution and costing
him additional attorney’s fees and costs
to prosecute the binding arbitration. |
| $1,050,000 |
Premises liability
case against a restaurant and the building’s
owner for negligent maintenance of an elevator.
A 93 year old women tripped on the miss-leveled
elevator as she was exiting and suffered a broken
hip. Case settled on the first day of trial. |
| Confidential Settlement |
Auto Product Liability case against
General Motors for the death of an adult daughter
killed when the roof of Chevrolet pickup crushed
during a roll over accident in Mexico. |
| Confidential Settlement |
Auto Product Liability
case against General Motors for seat belt failure
in a Chevrolet pickup resulting in a passenger
being thrown through the front windshield when
the truck went into a ditch. Concussion and facial
scaring. |
| Confidential Settlement |
Insurance “Bad
Faith” against UNIUM and Provident Insurance.
UNIUM,
Provident Insurance refused to continue disability
payments after the insured had been injured in
an auto accident. Federal Court. |
| Confidential Settlement |
Auto Product Liability
case against Susiki Motors. Winds caused driver
to lose control of Susiki Samuri resulting in
the Samuri rolling over and killing a teenage
passenger. |
| Confidential Settlement |
Auto Product Liability
case against General Motors for roof failure (roof
crushed in on driver) and against a brake shop
for brake failure in a Chevrolet pickup. Driver
sustaining a spinal injury when the truck’s
brakes failed and the truck went off the side
of a mountain road and the roof crushed in on
the driver’s head. |
| $825,000+ |
Bus vs. Pedestrian
on-the-job injury. Concussion. Settlement also
included Metro Link pay additional funds to reimburse
workers’ compensation insurance company. |
| $520,000 |
Auto accident where
building materials from freeway construction site
hit plaintiff’s car. CalTrans freeway construction
contractor initially denied liability. Extensive
discovered uncovered a cover up of evidence by
the CalTrans contractor who then settled just
before trial.
|
| $750,000 |
Auto vs. Auto accident.
Collected total of defendant’s insurance
and then arbitrated client’s uninsured motorist
claim. Her insurance company insisted that she
was not entitled to the full policy limit until
moments before starting the binding arbitration
with the threat of an insurance bad faith case
hanging over their heads.
|
| $500,000 |
Auto vs. Auto, clients
previous attorney recommended settling for less
than $200,000 after a surgery. Uninsured motorist
claim settled for $650,000 with questionable causation
and injuries plus recover from defendant driver. |
| $514,000 |
Premises Liability
vs. CalTrans. Client’s previous attorney
insisted that he settle for CalTrans’ $40,000
offer due in part to derogatory evidence of a
personal nature against the client and the costs
of going to trial. Case settled on the first day
of trial after we successfully argued pre-trial
motions to exclude the personal derogatory evidence
at trial.
|
| $425,000 |
Assault and Battery
on a BMW dealer’s general manager by former
NFL player. Settled on the fourth day of trial.
Post concession syndrom. |
| Confidential Settlement |
Auto vs. Auto accident.
Defendant was uninsured. Client’s uninsured
motorist insurance carrier refused to pay her
claim. We won a policy limit award at the uninsured
motorist arbitration. Due to her insurance companies
“bad fath” and negligence in handling
her claim, we sued the insurance company. The
“bad faith” claim was settled for
a “confidential amount”.
|
| $300,000 |
Auto vs. Auto accident.
This elderly client had been represented by former
attorney for over six months. We took over representation,
conducted our investigation, gathered the evidence,
made her claim and settled it for policy limits,
twenty times more than she was expecting, in less
than two months from beginning her representation.
|
| $300,000 |
Road design defect
against CalTrans. |
| $300,000 |
Auto vs. Pedestrian.
Defense contended that our client was negligent
in “J” walking, stepping out into
the street in the face of an on coming vehicle
and was attempting to commit suicide when he stepped
into the street. The defense settled for their
policy limit rather than risk us winning an even
greater amount at trial.
|
| $292,000 |
Wrongful death auto
accident. |
| $275,000 |
Judgement against
the owner of a dog who bite a young boy in the
face. $25,000 of the money was a settlement against
the owner/landlord and leasing company of the
premises where the dog was housed and where the
boy was attacked.
|
| $250,000 |
Trucker delivering
to Carl’s Jr’s. Anaheim warehouse
was injured by a forklift driver while on loading
dock.. Case taken over from previous attorney
who was not equipped to go to trial.
|
| $250,000 |
Legal Malpractice
case against client’s former attorney who
failed to file her auto products liability case
timely. |
| $200,000 |
Auto vs. Parked
Commercial vehicle. Death of daughter passenger
in auto that ran into illegally parked semi-truck.
Parents refused to accept settlement offered during
trial which was Multiple times higher. |
| $185,000 |
Class action lawsuit
against cellular phone company for changing employee
compensation plan and failing to pay bonuses previously
earned.
|
| $165,000 |
Auto vs. Auto accident. |
| $150,000 |
Plaintiff injured
while walking through his condominium parking
lot to his unit at night. Pipes attached to the
top of a plumbing truck created a hazard in the
dark. |
| $150,000 |
Auto vs. Auto -
surgery. |
| $150,000 |
Auto vs. Auto -
policy limit. |
| $145,000 |
Auto vs. Auto accident.
Settled for total of multiple auto insurance policies
that we were able to discover and then “stack”. |
| $140,000 |
Auto vs Auto. Settled
auto claim on behalf of injured party for the
$100,000 policy limit and then collected $40,000
additional for family member who was traumatized
by witnessing injury (Dillon claim). |
| $137,000 |
Auto vs. Pedestrian. |
| $125,000+ |
Slip & Fall
case against Wal-Mart. The defense attorneys before
the trial bragged that they had NEVER lost a Wal-Mart
case and they would go up on appeal it they lost.
Jury awarded $125,000 and Wal-Mart appealed. Wal-Mart
eventually settled appeal paying more than the
original jury award. |
| $125,000 |
Auto vs. Auto -
surgery |
| $109,000 |
General Negligence
against a restaurant. Patron was “goated”
into going on stage by female impersonator who
then injured him by “dropping” on
him.
|
| $109,000 |
Auto vs. Auto |
| $109,000 |
Award in Premises
Liability - Salon chair collapsed injuring patron
leg. Infection and scarring. |
| $108,000 |
Auto vs. Auto |
| $101,000 |
Legal malpractice
against attorney who dropped client’s case
and gave her the wrong date by which she had to
file a lawsuit. |
| $100,000 |
Dog bite. Postal
worker received a minor bite and psychological
injury due to incident. Policy limit. We have
handled numerous postal worker, meter reader,
pool service, UPS and FedEx dog bite cases. These
people are exposed to dangerous dog’s on
a daily basis. |
| $100,000 |
Minor girl bitten
on the head and neck under the hairline. Also
recovered for her 12 year old brother and mother
who were both traumatized by witnessing event
(Dillion Claim). Actual ultimate recovery much
higher due to funds being paid through an annuity
when the children are college age. |
| $100,000 |
Auto vs Auto accident,
policy limit. We have many dozens of case histories
of $100,000 policy limit recoveries. Our systematic
approach to cases in general and auto accident
cases particularly, positions our client’s
to recover policy limits by exposing the defendant’s
insurance company to a judgment potential in excess
of the policy limit, in which case they would
be forced to pay the entire judgment, regardless
of their policy maximum limits.
|
| $100,000 |
Minor girl bitten
by neighbor's dog, policy limit. Settled under
ninety days from the date of injury. We have a
history of numerous policy limit dog bite case
recoveries, especially on the behalf of children.
This one is unique because we recovered the policy
limit in such a short time. |
| $100,000 |
Auto vs. Pedestrian,
policy limit. |
| $100,000 |
Auto vs. Auto, policy
limit. |
| $100,000 |
Dog bite (mother’s
dog), policy limit. |
| $100,000 |
On-the-job auto
vs. auto accident, policy limit. |
| $100,000 |
Auto vs. Auto -surgery
recommended, policy limit. |
| $100,000 |
Auto vs. Auto, $1,200
property damage to plaintiff’s vehicle.
Previous attorney insisted that client settle
for the $7,500 being offered by defense insurance
company. |
| $100,000 |
Auto vs. Auto, policy
limit. |
| $100,000 |
Auto vs. Auto, policy
limit on both third party and under insured motorist
policy. |
| $90,000+ |
Construction site
accident against general contractor and land owner,
both of which denied any liability whatsoever.
Recovery included waiver by workers’ compensation
carrier of reimbursement. |
| $93,703 |
Auto vs. Auto. $500
in property damage. Exposed policy limit and insurance
company was forced to pay entire judgment, which
was in excess of the auto insurance policy limit. |
| $90,000 |
Premises liability
against Victoria Secrets retail store for injuries
sustained when a display item fell and injured
shopper. Previous attorney suggested abandoning
case due to the complexities and the liability
issues. |
| $75,000 |
Dog bite to minor
child by grandparents dog. |
| $75,000 |
Auto vs. Auto -
Major pre-existing injuries. |
| $75,000 |
Auto vs. Auto. |
| $70,000 |
Auto vs. Auto, meniscus
surgery. |
| $60,000 |
Slip & Fall
at a McDonalds’. Broken elbow. |
| $56,000 |
Auto vs. Auto accident
- meniscus surgery. |
* Injured motorcyclist
- $3 Million after his previous attorney advised that
his claim was worth only $15,000.
On a normal, fully scheduled day, John Bisnar received
an urgent call from a business associate, a local realtor.
The caller frantically explained that her brother-in-law
was in a Sacramento hospital, his doctors had recommended
a complicated, risky surgery, and he was panicking about
what would become of his family and about payment of
the mounting medical expenses. She further explained
that her brother-in-law was desperate to get answers
from his attorney about these issues before consenting
to surgery, that his attorney was not returning calls
and his attorney had previously advised that his case
was only worth $15,000, the maximum amount of insurance
of the negligent automobile driver.
Mr. Bisnar immediately spoke to the injured man and
quickly realized that this was not a consultation to
have over the phone. Mr. Bisnar canceled the rest of
his day and took the next flight to Sacrament.
Once Mr. Bisnar arrived at the hospital, the injured
man explained that he was hit by a car while on his
motorcycle in the course of running an errand for his
employer. He said he had hired a nationally known motorcycle
accident attorney and that the attorney advised him
that the negligent driver's insurance limit was $15,000
and that was the total value of his claim. He went on
to explain that his doctors had advised him that he
could lose his leg (it was eventually saved).
After Mr. Bisnar answered his questions, advised him
regarding his Workers' Compensation benefits and explained
that his attorney probably was right about the $15,000
value of his claim. The injured man asked to hire Mr.
Bisnar, explaining that he had received more information
from Mr. Bisnar about his circumstances, his rights,
his options and the probable outcome of his case than
he had received from his present attorney after weeks
of representation. Mr. Bisnar reluctantly accepted.
An immediate investigation uncovered that the negligent
driver was a route salesman for a beer distributor and
was probably on the job at the time of the accident
(although the employer initially denied this). When
the employer was advised of the results of the Bisnar
investigation, the insurance company for the employer
offered to settle the claim for a few hundred thousand
dollars.
Mr. Bisnar did settle the claim with the beer distributor.
The total recovery included $750,000 in up front cash,
all medical expenses paid, Workers' Compensation liens
satisfied, and an income for life (future value of the
"income for life" exceed $2,000,000).
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