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$8,900,000 – for workers discriminated due to race

In aggregate recoveries against homeowner insurance companies for water damage claims;

$4,700,000 for parking employees who claimed back wages for unpaid overtime and missed meal breaks in a wage and hour class action.

$4,600,000 recovered before trial for a family in a personal injury/wrongful death case arising from a disputed automobile accident.

Recovered for a class of caregivers and other nursing facility employees for overtime and missed meal breaks.

For policyholders in an Unfair Competition Law action arising from the deceptive sale of insurance policies as investment schemes.

Settlement for 197 workers whose paychecks were deducted the costs of business expenses by their employers.

Obtained against her landlord for trip/fall accident in apartment.

$2,250,000 recovered for retirees who were fraudulently sold insurance annuity policies.

$2,125,000 for bus drivers who claimed back wages for unpaid overtime and missed meal breaks in a class action

For civil rights violations of the family of a mentally disabled man shot and killed by a Long Beach police officer.

$1,900,000 for a class of hospital employees, including nurses, therapists, and technicians for unpaid overtime wages and missed meal and rest breaks penalties.

$1,250,000 for a class of retail employees, including cashiers, stockers, and maintenance employees, for unpaid wages

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

$1,100,000 for a homeowner in a bad faith action against his insurance company, on a claim arising from damages caused by the Northridge earthquake.

Current value of verdict for a nanny not paid minimum wages.

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

$1,000,000 for a senior citizen who was injured while getting off a van operated by a company providing transportation services to the disabled and elderly.

$950,000 recovered for the decedent’s wife and child in a freeway accident case despite CHP Reports blaming decedent husband for rear ending a stopped vehicle.

$900,000 in wages recovered for a class of mobile X-ray technicians and phlebotomists paid on a piece rate basis.

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

For a couple whose home was damaged by city sewer backup. The city thereafter used more modern equipment to maintain its sewage facilities.

$800,000 for a class of healthcare employees of a skilled nursing facility.

For a college student injured in a disputed sideswipe collision.

$700,000 for auto technicians for non payment of waiting time.

$650,000 for a clerk discriminated at work on account of his disability.

$500,000 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.

$500,000 for a housekeeper and his reliever in a case claiming overtime and minimum wage payments.

$470,000 in unpaid wages for inside salespersons and office employees misclassified as “managers” or “salaried”.

$435,000 to homeowners for damages to homes caused by telephone company while installing underground cables.

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

$425,000 for a 72 year old security guard in a claim for overtime wages and elder financial abuse.