Oil company ignores toxic chemical leak for weeks; exposes 6,000 local residents to dangerous compound that causes ongoing respiratory problems. Casper, Meadows, Schwartz & Cook helps victims recover $80 million. This class action case involved Unocal, a global oil and natural gas company with operations in Rodeo, California. Six thousand area residents were exposed to…
Premises liability case
Elevator “repaired” with zip ties drops; leaves Bay Area woman permanently injured and unable to work. Casper, Meadows, Schwartz & Cook obtains $5.6 million verdict for victim. A Contra Costa jury awarded $5.6 million to a woman in Walnut Creek who was severely injured at the Gateway Centre in 2013 when an elevator that had…
51 year old business executive suffered paraplegia as a result of misdiagnosis of head injury.
Our client was on a playground swing set when a metal connector on the swing snapped. He was thrown off the swing into a nearby rocky creek bed, suffering fractures to his vertebrae, ribs, elbow, and wrist. The defendant argued that using a swing set includes inherent risks of serious injury. Our attorneys successfully argued…
61-year-old female was assigned to the ICU after the surgical placement of a tracheostomy, for which she was totally dependent upon for her oxygen intake. Although she had shown earlier signs of agitation, she was not restrained. During a shift change, she tried to get out of her bed and dislodged her trache. Before her…
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