Attorneys Helping Employees,
Policyholders & Consumers

700 N. Central Avenue, Suite 235
Glendale, California 91203
818-291-0088

C. Joe Sayas, Jr., Esq.

C. Joe Sayas, Jr., Esq. is an experienced consumer rights attorney helping insurance policyholders, employees, persons injured by the negligence of others and those harmed by the unfair business practices of big companies.

Mr. Sayas has obtained numerous multimillion recoveries for his clients. He was instrumental in obtaining over $5 million for families from their insurance companies for the bad faith handling of their water and mold damage claims. In a highly disputed auto accident case, his efforts led to a family's recovery of $4.6 million against the defendants. He fought for a disabled senior citizen who fell while getting off a van operated by a company providing transportation services to the disabled . Despite the claimed assistance by the driver, Mr. Sayas established that the company failed to provide the care required by her disability, resulting in the recovery of $1 million and changes in the company’s practices.

Mr. Sayas won an appeal against a major insurance company that refused to provide earthquake benefits based on unenforceable policy exclusions. Victims of the Northridge earthquake benefitted from the pro consumer appellate decision. Mr. Sayas also won one of the largest recoveries ever paid to a homeowner by a California municipality for destruction caused by raw sewage. He was featured on the cover of Los Angeles Daily Journal's Verdicts and Settlements in recognition of his accomplishments.

Mr. Sayas has litigated complex multiparty and class action cases. He obtained court relief for families misled into buying life insurance policies with the false promise of stopping premium payments after a fixed number of years. He has obtained recoveries for retirees induced into buying complicated annuity policies with high but undisclosed surrender charges.

As current class counsel to thousands of employees, Mr. Sayas is pursuing their wage claims for overtime and missed breaks. He is also class counsel seeking court remedies for retirees and seniors who bought annuities touted as investments by insurance agents. These insurance products were sold without disclosures that the high sales commissions were recouped by the company from the policyholders’ earnings.

In the early days of his career, Mr. Sayas distinguished himself by arguing the case of the Philippine government against Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, leading to the issuance of an injunction against the Marcoses. Before establishing his own firm, he was a litigation attorney for Alexander, Millner and McGee, the largest minority-owned firm in the country in the 1990s.

Mr. Sayas received his Master of Laws from Georgetown University Law Center and his Bachelor of Laws from the University of the Philippines. He is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum - a trial lawyer organization whose membership is limited to those who have demonstrated exceptional skills, experience and excellence in advocacy by achieving a verdict or settlement of one million dollars or more.

He volunteers his time serving as the Corporate Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA), a non-profit organization serving impoverished and multi-ethnic neighborhoods in Los Angeles.