San Francisco Bay Area Personal Injury Settlements

The following are samples of recent settlements we procured on behalf of our clients. While no one can guarantee any results in a particular case, these settlements provide samples of the types of claims we handle and our successes

$3,750,000
We represented a 76-year-old whose car was rear-ended by a San Francisco Municipal Railway bus. The bus driver was intoxicated, and our investigation revealed that the driver had an extensive substance abuse problem and prior accident history. The accident severed our client’s spinal cord and left him a T-5 paraplegic. The settlement included enough money to provide him with the needed life care prognosticated by our experts.

$3,000,000
We represented the family of an 8-year-old who drowned during her swim class at a public pool in Contra Costa County. We proved to the defendant that the drowning would not have occurred if the pool staff had followed their stated protocols for pool safety. The settlement included a memorial established in honor of our clients’ daughter.

$2,750,000
We represented the wife and two adult children of a 57-year old man (assembly line worker) who was struck and killed by an Oakland Police patrol car while crossing within a crosswalk. Following a year of litigation, OPD admitted liability and settled the lawsuit.

$2,300,000
We represented the surviving husband and two college-age children of a 50 year-old woman who was crossing the street within a crosswalk, when she was struck and killed by a SamTrans bus. We were able to negotiate the settlement after a year of litigation.

$2,250,000
We represented the surviving husband and two adult children of a 56-year-old who was crossing the street within a crosswalk when she was struck and killed by a San Francisco Municipal Railway bus. After one and a half years of litigation, Muni admitted liability and settled the lawsuit.

$1,850,000
Our 36-year-old client was lawfully driving his motorcycle on I-80 near Hayward when a commuter van suddenly and without warning changed lanes into him, striking his motorcycle and foot. The defendant claimed that our client was speeding because he looked in his rear-view mirror and never saw our client. Our motorcycle expert reconstructed the accident and helped us prove our client wasn’t speeding. Our client suffered a severe foot fracture, requiring surgery and a career change.

$1,578,500
We represented a 12-year-old Milpitas girl against the city of Milpitas and a general contractor for constructing a mid-block signalized pedestrian crossing but failing to warn pedestrians that the signal lights weren’t yet functional and to not yet use the crossing. Our client was struck by a van while crossing mid-block and suffered a traumatic brain injury. In deposition, a city employee working on the project admitted that she knew before the accident that the non-functioning crossing would be a problem but that she did nothing to correct it.

$1,136,000
Our 30-year-old client from Vallejo was driving his motorcycle slightly above the speed limit when a slow-moving backhoe in front of him moved partially into the shoulder and then started turning left in front of our client, causing him to lay down his motorcycle, fracture his back and injure his spinal cord, which required spinal fusions at two vertebral levels. The adverse party predictably argued that our client was going at an excessive speed, but our expert motorcycle accident reconstructionist proved otherwise.

$1,120,000
We represented a 29-year-old tow truck driver from Vacaville who was struck by a car while he was hooking up a tow behind it. Our client suffered a severe crush and degloving injury to his leg, requiring multiple surgeries. The car driver had only $50,000 insurance, and when she passed away before the lawsuit settled, her estate added $120,000. We made an underinsured motorist claim against our client’s employer’s automobile uninsured/underinsured motorist policy and received an additional $950,000 for him.

$1,000,000
Our firm represented a 42-year-old who was walking on the sidewalk when she was struck in the back of the head and neck by equipment protruding from the bed of a passing pick-up truck. We claimed that the client suffered neck and traumatic brain injuries, causing an extended disability.

$855,000
We represented a 29-year-old Muni bus passenger who was lifted from his seat by the bus driver and tossed out the front doors onto the street. The driver claimed that when our client placed his fare in the box, he hit the driver’s hand. Our investigation discovered that the bus driver was a convicted violent felon with a history of allegedly attacking other Muni patrons. Our client suffered a fractured wrist and thumb and significant psychological injury.

$825,000
In this medical malpractice case, we represented the wife and children of a man who complained to his primary care physician for a year of upper respiratory infections and bronchitis. The physician failed to order needed tests or refer the patient to the necessary specialists, who could have revealed that he had leukemia.

$700,000
We represented a 69-year-old who was exposed to carbon monoxide when his homebuilder failed to glue a radiant heating system flue exhaust pipe. Our client suffered carbon monoxide poisoning, resulting in a mild traumatic brain injury and depression.

$650,000
We represented the adult children of a 78-year-old who was pushing a shopping cart at a retail store when she tripped on merchandise left in the aisle and broke her hip. During surgery to repair her hip, she suffered a stroke, which led to her death. The case settled the day before trial was to begin.

$600,000
We represented a 70-year-old who was a passenger in a car driven by her husband when they were rear-ended at high speed. Our client suffered bilateral jaw fractures, requiring her entire mouth to be reconstructed.

$550,000
We represented a 41-year-old who, while driving, was struck by a car that ran a red light at an intersection. She suffered spinal disc injuries not requiring surgery.

$500,000
Our client, a 37-year-old plumber and pipefitter, was working inside a trailer when a forklift operator lost control of his forklift and slammed into the trailer. Our client suffered post-concussion syndrome and injuries to his knees, face, teeth, neck and back.

$498,000
We represented a 24-year-old who was a seatbelted passenger in a Mercedes. The driver started racing a BMW and sent the Mercedes out of control, colliding with the BMW, striking a tree and splitting in half. Our client suffered internal injuries to his small bowel and sigmoid colon as well as psychological injury.

$462,500
We represented a 25-year-old who was struck by a left-turning automobile in San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury district. The defendant automobile driver claimed that the motorcycle was speeding.Our client suffered facial fractures and a traumatic brain injury when his helmet flew off his head at impact.

$400,000
We represented a 34-year-old who was the passenger on a motorcycle struck by a car that ran a red light. All of her physical injuries were of the soft-tissue type. We claimed that the accident caused our client severe psychological injury that required psychiatric hospitalization.

$400,000
Our client was a 63-year-old who was walking in a crosswalk in Berkeley when she was struck by a car making a left turn. She suffered an anterior cruciate ligament tear of her right knee, which necessitated surgical repair, and a back injury.

$400,000
Our 25-year-old client was commuting home from work when a semi rear-ended his car. The truck driver claimed that our client cut in front of him. Our client suffered a bulging disc in his back that required surgery.

$400,000
We helped a 51-year-old who tripped over a wire placed by an antenna installer across a marked walkway on the defendant property owner’s rooftop. The installer and building owner didn’t place any signs, barriers or warnings for the tripping hazard. Our client suffered a severe shoulder injury, requiring surgery that left him with residual shoulder limitations.

$375,000
We assisted a 42-year-old who was driving her motorcycle on a country road when a car pulled out from a stop sign, causing her to drive her motorcycle into a ditch to avoid a collision. She fractured her wrist, which developed reflex sympathetic dystrophy, necessitating extensive medical treatment to regain function.

$115,000
Our 35-year-old client was driving her car on a Sonoma County road when a tree branch fell through her windshield, causing her to lose control of her car and strike a tree. The county claimed that it knew the branch needed to be cut down but that it didn’t have the funding for the maintenance.Our client suffered a fractured finger and partial amputation of the fingertip.

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At the Weber & Nierenberg law firm, our lawyers can protect your interests after a serious accident, including a motorcycle or auto accident, that resulted in serious injury. With offices throughout northern California and the San Francisco Bay Area, including San Francisco, San Rafael, Oakland and San Jose, we represent clients throughout the communities in and around the East Bay, North Bay and South Bay, including San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Sacramento, Napa, Santa Rosa, San Rafael, Berkeley, Richmond, Fremont, Hayward, Modesto, Stockton, San Mateo, Santa Cruz and Walnut Creek.