With more than 35 years of experience representing plaintiffs who have sustained serious personal injuries or financial losses, the trial lawyers of BIREN|KATZMAN have successfully handled hundreds of cases, collecting more than $250 million for our clients. The following case is just one example:
BROWNSTEIN V. SEACREST
Boating Accident Recovery $1 million +
Richard Brownstein, a young lawyer, was riding his new Wet Bike (a motorcycle for water) for the first time at Lake Castaic. After he was able to teach himself how to stay on the Wet Bike, he unintentionally veered in front of an oncoming speedboat and was run over.
The boat's unguarded propeller cut into Mr. Brownstein's 's head, causing him to be rendered a hemiplegic.
BIREN|KATZMAN developed evidence establishing comparative fault of each of the defendants: that the boat's owner was negligently driving, trying to get dangerously close to the Wet Bike in order to see what it was; that the boat was dangerously designed because it did not include a propeller guard; that the Wet Bike was defectively unstable, making riding of it difficult for novices; and that the State was negligent for failing to segregate boats from Jet Skis and Wet Bikes.
The case settled before trial with some of the defendants for an aggregate amount in excess of $1 million, despite very difficult liability.
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