A Riverside Superior Court jury found that Sheriff Deputies employed by the County of Riverside used excessive force against a Moreno Valley family resulting in their son’s death. After a two-week trial and several days of deliberations, a jury of 4 women and 8 men rendered a gross verdict in favor of the decedent’s two young children and family totaling $5.5M.

While sleeping, our well-known client was attacked in the middle of the night by a female acquaintance with a knife. With his face, throat, arms and upper torso deeply cut and slashed, our client fought for his life, took the knife from the woman, and was barely able to crawl outside of his home for help. Our client’s knife wounds were life-threatening.

During this time, the woman unbelievably and unpredictably grabbed another knife from the kitchen, walked back upstairs and murdered our client’s son. This woman has since been convicted of murder and will spend the rest of her life in prison. Our civil case against the defendant was resolved by a stipulated judgment for $5,000,000.00.

Our young client was involved in a head-on collision. Two trucks were side by side and drag racing each other and were moving quickly in the direction of our client. One struck our client’s truck head-on.

Our client was seriously injured and airlifted from the collision scene and taken to the hospital. His medical bills totaled several hundred thousand dollars.

As things turned out, the two responsible drivers (the racing vehicles) were inadequately insured. Our client made a claim against his own insurance company under the terms of his underinsured motorist coverage (UIM). Our client’s own insurance company said our client caused the collision and refused to pay our client his $30,000.00 underinsured motorist coverage limits. After we were hired, we demanded arbitration with the insurance company and ultimately received an award in excess of $850,000.

We then filed a first party insurance bad faith lawsuit against our client’s own insurance company and during a mediation prior to trial, settled the bad faith case for an additional $2,500,000.00. The same insurance company which refused to pay our client $30,000.00 eventually paid a total of $3,347,000.00.

Of note is the fact that this settlement was obtained only after our client’s own insurance company originally denied paying the earlier referenced $30,000.00 claim.

A negligent driver was not paying attention, ran a red light and caused a serious accident. Our client was seriously injured and after the responsible driver’s insurance company refused to make a settlement offer, we were able to obtain a judgment for $2,759,852.00.

After 2 years of litigation, Jon Mitchell Jackson of Jackson & Wilson obtained a $2,000,000 judgment against a defendant driver who was operating his motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

The defendant was operating his motor vehicle on the winding Big Bear highway (SR 38) near Big Bear, California. He approached our client from the opposite direction and without warning, swerved across the double yellow lines striking our client. As a result of the defendant’s wrongful conduct, our motorcycle riding client sustained major injuries which included left side injuries, minor head trauma, and a severed left leg just below the hip.

In addition to the $2,000,000 civil judgment, the defendant was prosecuted criminally and convicted of violating California Vehicle Code 23153(A) (driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs). As a result of his conviction, the defendant was also ordered to pay restitution to our client.

Our female client was a passenger in a vehicle operated by a young female teenage driver. The two friends were on their way home from high school to have lunch.

Our client had recently retired from the military after 30 years of service in the special forces. While safely and lawfully operating a motorcycle, he was struck by a teenage driver making an illegal left-hand turn. We were able to mediate a settlement shortly before trial for $1,250,000.00. Prior to the mediation, no offer had been made by the defendant.

Our clients lost their son in a tragic jet ski accident on the Colorado River. The driver of the other watercraft (the defendant) refused to accept responsibility for his negligent and reckless actions. The defendant’s insurance company originally only offered $1 to compensate our clients for their loss.

Our client was a victim of medical negligence and hired an attorney to protect her and to represent her interest. He failed to do his job and show up for court hearings. Eventually, her case was dismissed barring her from forever pursuing her claim against the negligent doctor.

The client came to us and we immediately learned that this was not the first time this attorney had caused problems for a client. The California State Bar had prior issues with this lawyer. We filed a legal malpractice case against the negligent attorney and obtained a judgment against him.