Glendale Personal Injury Lawyers

Get medical care first, even if you think you are fine. Some injuries take a day or two to show up. If you can, photograph the scene, get the names of anyone who saw what happened, and ask for a police or incident report. Do not give a recorded statement to the other side's insurer. Then call us.

We cannot tell you that from a website. The value of a claim depends on the injuries, the treatment you need now as well as later, the income you lost, how the injury affects your daily life, and how much insurance is available. After we review your records we can give you an honest range.

For most personal injury claims in California the deadline is two years, counted from the day you were hurt. If a city, county, or state agency is responsible, you must file a written claim with that agency within six months before you can sue. Other exceptions exist, so the safest course is to call soon after the injury.

A quick offer usually arrives before anyone knows how serious the injury is. Once you accept it, the claim is closed, even if you need surgery six months later. We will look at the offer at no charge and tell you whether it accounts for everything the law lets you recover.

Nothing up front. We work on a contingency fee, which means our fee is a percentage of what we recover for you, and if we recover nothing you owe no attorney fee. The percentage is set out in a written agreement before we start. If there is no recovery, you owe nothing for case costs either.

Only personal injury cases: car, truck, motorcycle, bicycle, rideshare, or pedestrian crashes, dog bites, construction injuries, falls on unsafe property, defective products, medical malpractice, and wrongful death. If your situation is not on that list, call anyway.

It depends on how long your medical treatment lasts, whether the insurer accepts responsibility, and whether we have to file a lawsuit. Straightforward claims can resolve in a few months. Serious injury cases, or cases where fault is disputed, can take a year or more. We will not settle early just to close the file.

You can still recover. California uses a pure comparative fault rule, which means your compensation is reduced by your share of the blame rather than wiped out. If you were found twenty percent at fault, your recovery drops by twenty percent. Insurers often overstate your share, and part of our job is to push back on that.

Yes. You can call, come to the office in Glendale, or fill out the form on this page. We will ask what happened, review any paperwork you have, and tell you what we think. You will not get a bill for that conversation whether or not you hire us.

You can, and for a minor fender bender with no injuries that may be fine. Once there are medical bills, lost work, or a dispute over fault, you are negotiating against people who do this every day. We know what evidence to gather, what the claim is worth, and when to file suit instead of taking the offer on the table.