Over $5,000,000 recovered for families in insurance bad faith actions arising from water damage and mold-related claims.

$4,600,000 won in a personal injury/wrongful death case arising from a disputed automobile accident. 

Over $2,000,000 recovered in annuity cases for retirees.

$1,500,000 for policyholders in a case arising from the sale of insurance policies as investment schemes. 

$1,400,000 verdict in an insurance bad faith trial arising from the insurer's denial of the policyholders' claims for losses to their homes.

$1,100,000 for a homeowner in an action against the client's insurance company, on a claim arising from damages caused by the Northridge earthquake. 

$1,100,000 in settlement for a class of couriers who sought overtime compensation against their employer.

$1,000,000 for a 72-year old disabled who fell while getting off a van operated by a company providing transportation services to the disabled and elderly. 

$1,000,000 for a retiree injured in a freeway auto collision.

In excess of $1,100,000 for homeowners whose properties were damaged by governmental or public work projects. 

$850,000 won for the family of a retired grandmother who died in a multi-vehicle freeway collision. 

$950,000 recovered for the decedent's family in a case arising from a freeway accident where the CHP blamed the decedent for rear ending a stopped vehicle.

$475,000 for a disabled medical doctor sued by his own disability insurance company for fraud. We counter-sued the insurance company in federal court and established that the fraud suit was only a pretext for terminating disability benefits. 

$425,000 for an immigrant couple defrauded by a California business promising US immigration benefits in return for the purchase of undeveloped real estate. 

Successful prosecution of an appeal against a major insurance carrier on an issue involving the interpretation of covered benefits under a homeowner's earthquake policy. Our firm obtained a pro-consumer insurance ruling which benefitted the client and other consumers who purchased the same policies. 

C. Joe Sayas, Jr. wrote the court pleadings and argued the Philippine government's case against former President Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos in the first case against the Marcoses in the US West Coast in 1986. The court granted a preliminary injunction in the cases.

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