Garo Mardirossian

Garo Mardirossian's Legal Cases (14)

Los Angeles, CA

Personal injury Lawyer at Los Angeles, CA

Practice Areas: Personal Injury, Brain Injury ... +4 more

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Defective and dangerous products

Gozukara v. Ford Motor Company, et al.

Feb 09, 2002

OUTCOME: $14,900,000.00

This historic case was the first verdict in American history where a jury in Barstow, after a four-month trial, found the Ford Explorer to be defective in rollover propensity. On May 24, 1997, the Gozu ... kara family was driving in their 1994 Ford Explorer on the I-15 freeway to Las Vegas. When Mr. Gozukara braked and swerved to avoid an encroaching vehicle, the Ford Explorer vibrated violently causing loss of control before the Explorer rolled over multiple times. Mrs. Gozukara was rendered quadriplegic and other members of the family suffered severe injuries. Garo Mardirossian, as chief trial attorney for plaintiffs, established that the Ford Explorer was defectively designed.

Brain injury

Joel Mark v. Traveling Carnivals

N/A

OUTCOME: $1,000,000.00

Joel was injured while riding a ferris wheel when a piece of metal smacked him in the head and caused terrible trauma to his brain. Others would look at the same case and think he quickly fully recover ... ed. We proved otherwise. I was the lead lawyer.

Civil rights

Galen Ball v. City of Long Beach

N/A

OUTCOME: $800,000

This was a civil rights case. We took dozens of depositions, visited the scene repeatedly, and flew all over California pursuing justice for Galen. Shortly before trial in Federal Court, the case settl ... ed. He had a traumatic brain injury.

Intellectual property

Sugar Ray Leonard v. Billy Blanks et al.

N/A

OUTCOME: confidential

Ray, one of the most famous Americans, an Olympic Gold Medalist, a Five-Time Boxing World Champion in every division you could imagine, had his name and likeness stolen without proper compensation. I f ... ought for Ray, and we knocked out the opponent.

Car accident

Saakyan v. Modern Auto

N/A

OUTCOME: $26,900,000.00

In June, 1992, 17 year old Oganes Saakyan picked up his sister’s Honda at Modern Auto, which had just installed unsafely large wheels and rims on the vehicle. Upon entering the freeway, the Honda ove ... rturned and rolled down an embankment rendering Oganes Saakyan quadriplegic. The first trial resulted in jury verdict for the defense – after which Garo Mardirossian appealed and obtained reversal upon the ground of juror misconduct. The second trial resulted in jury verdict for plaintiff, and judgment in the amount of $26,900,000. As this case involved two trials and an appeal, Garo Mardirossian spent 11 years obtaining compensation for the injuries suffered by Oganes Saakyan.

Civil rights

Dole v. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department

N/A

OUTCOME: $24,850,000.00

The Dole family was gathered for a bridal shower at their home in Cerritos. When Los Angeles County Sheriffs arrived, mayhem ensued. Numerous Dole family members were severely beaten and others, includ ... ing a Samoan tribal chief, were chained together and jailed for two days. Although criminal charges were brought against members of the Dole family, not a single conviction was obtained. Garo Mardirossian was the chief trial attorney in the civil rights action on behalf of the Dole family. After jury verdict in favor of plaintiffs, judgment was entered in the amount of $24,850,000 – the largest judgment ever obtained against the Los Angeles County Sherriff’s Department.

Defective and dangerous products

Duan v. General Motors

N/A

OUTCOME: Confidential

On August 15, 1999, the Duan family was traveling in a rented 1999 Chevrolet Astro van in Northern California when the van rolled over three times, killing Mr. Duan and causing severe injuries to the o ... ther occupants of the van. In this lawsuit plaintiffs’ chief trial attorney, Garo Mardirossian, obtained a court order requiring that General Motors release to the public, for the first time, thousands of GM documents concerning roof-crush in rollovers of GM vehicles. After release of these previously undisclosed documents by GM, this case resulted in a confidential settlement reached during jury deliberations.

Personal injury

Castillo v. Korman Center Enterprises

N/A

OUTCOME: $5,800,000.00 including punitives

On a cold December night, 9 year old Quantez Castillo got out of bed and went to the kitchen of his mother’s tenement apartment to get a glass of juice from the refrigerator. His mother had requested ... numerous times that the landlord fix the apartment heater, and had been repeatedly ignored. On that night, she left the gas burners of the stove turned on to heat the apartment. As Quantez stood adjacent to the refrigerator, the gas flame of the stove set his pajamas on fire causing Quantez to suffer severe burns. On behalf of young Quantez Castillo, Garo Mardirossian obtained a jury verdict against the landlord in the amount of $2,500,000 in compensatory damages and $3,300,000 in punitive damages, for a total verdict of $5,800,000. The defense offer of settlement at the start of trial was $151,000.

Defective and dangerous products

Hakimian v. Gabbai

N/A

OUTCOME: $6,650,000.00

On January 22, 1996, the stove in Mr. Hakimian’s apartment on Beverly Boulevard exploded, causing him to suffer second and third degree burns over 30% of his body, as well as post traumatic stress di ... sorder. At trial, Garo Mardirossian proved that the gas jets of the stove were misaligned and malfunctioning, and that Mr. Hakimian’s complaints to the landlord about the stove had been ignored. The jury returned verdict in favor of Mr. Hakimian in the amount of $6,650,000.

Personal injury

McCardle v. Greyhound Motor Lines, Inc.

N/A

OUTCOME: $15,967,000.00

Plaintiff, a 50 year old man, was a passenger on a Greyhound bus when it came to a sudden stop on the freeway, causing plaintiff a neck injury that required two surgeries and left him a partial quadrip ... legic. The defendant claimed the event was so insignificant that it could not have caused more than a minor neck strain. Garo Mardirossian obtained jury verdict against the defendant in the sum of $15,967,000.

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