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Catastrophic Injury & Wrongful Death.
We represent individuals and families in a limited number of catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases. These matters are handled as litigation cases from the outset and typically involve complex liability, multiple parties, and significant financial exposure.
Overview
A Litigation-Oriented Approach
These cases are often more complicated than routine accident claims and frequently involve multiple parties, corporate policies, and layered insurance coverage. Our approach is litigation-oriented from the outset.
The focus is not only on immediate liability, but also on identifying all responsible parties, evaluating available insurance and financial recovery sources, and developing the case for resolution or trial.
We accept a limited number of catastrophic injury and wrongful death matters and do not operate as a high-volume personal injury practice. The cases we handle are typically those involving substantial injury, disputed responsibility, complex damages, or layered insurance requiring strategic litigation from the beginning.
Case Type
Delivery Vehicle & Commercial Fleet
We handle serious injury and wrongful death matters involving delivery vehicles, contractor fleets, commercial operators, and business-use vehicles. These cases may involve corporate delivery systems, contractor relationships, supervision issues, and disputes over responsibility for driver conduct.
Many of these matters involve multiple insurance policies and competing positions regarding coverage and responsibility — including disputes over whether the driver was operating within the scope of their engagement at the time of the incident.
Corporate fleet and delivery cases often require investigation into the company's policies, training, supervision practices, and internal communications, as well as analysis of the insurance structure governing the operation.
Case Type
Rideshare & Passenger Injury
We represent passengers and other individuals injured in rideshare and passenger transportation incidents involving Uber, Lyft, and similar services. These matters often present unique liability and insurance issues.
Questions regarding app status at the time of the incident, layered coverage between personal and commercial policies, contractor relationships, and allocation of responsibility among multiple parties are frequently central to how these cases are resolved.
The outcome of these cases frequently depends on careful factual development and understanding how the transportation system itself operated at the time of the incident — including the specific app activity, trip status, and applicable coverage tier.
Context
Why These Cases Are Different
These matters often involve companies that influence or control how drivers operate, as well as contractor and employment structures that affect liability. They may also involve corporate policies, safety practices, and multiple insurance layers that become central to the case.
As a result, these cases are frequently more complex than typical automobile claims and require a litigation strategy that addresses both liability and recovery from the outset — not as separate questions, but as integrated components of the same analysis.
- Multiple potentially responsible parties, including companies and their contractors
- Layered insurance programs with competing coverage positions
- Corporate policies, training, and supervision records that bear on liability
- Complex damages involving long-term injury, loss of earning capacity, and dependent family members
How We Work
Our Approach
We handle these matters as litigation cases from the beginning. That includes identifying all potentially responsible parties, analyzing insurance coverage and financial recovery issues, developing liability beyond the immediate actors where appropriate, and preparing the case for motion practice, negotiation, or trial.
Our focus is on serious injury and wrongful death matters involving contested liability, significant financial exposure, and complex factual or legal issues. We bring the same strategic discipline to injury cases that we apply to commercial and financial litigation — because the stakes are equally significant.
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We are available to discuss potential matters involving serious injury, wrongful death, complex liability, or layered insurance recovery.