SAN FRANCISCO -February 15, 2008 -California Lawyer magazine has named 34 attorneys around the state to receive the twelfth annual California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year Awards. Their achievements had a significant impact in 2007, or their work is expected to have such an effect in the coming … [Read more...]
Judge Upholds $55M Payout
LONG BEACH PRESS-TELEGRAM By Kristopher Hanson, Staff writer LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has upheld a $55 million verdict awarded to the family of a San Pedro longshoreman killed when an apparently defective Dodge pickup hit him at a shipping terminal three years ago. Richard Mraz was working at … [Read more...]
$50 Million Award Will Stand
DAILY BREEZE A judge has refused to overturn or reduce a $50 million award for the family of a San Pedro longshoreman who was killed by a runaway Dodge Dakota. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mel "Red" Recana denied DaimlerChrysler Corp.'s motion for a new verdict, trial and reduction in the … [Read more...]
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Upholds $50M Punitive Damage Award Against Daimlerchrysler Corporation
San Pedro, CA – June 28, 2007 – Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP and the Law Offices of Charles D. Naylor announced that a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge denied two post-trial motions submitted by DaimlerChrysler Corporation. The motions were filed in response to a recent jury verdict which … [Read more...]
Can Tugboat Death Be Guide to Safety?
LOS ANGELES TIMES By Ronald D. White, Times Staff Writer On the last morning of her life, 26-year-old Piper Inness Cameron was doing exactly what she had always wanted to do. She was working on the deck of a tugboat and counting the days until she, like her father, would be piloting one. There … [Read more...]
