Attorney Scott J. Corwin's Legal Cases

Motorcycle accident

Dulac v. Odgers

Mar 09, 2012

OUTCOME: $1,250,000

We recovered the full $1,250,000 insurance policy limits for our 23-year-old USC college student client. He suffered severe elbow and knee injuries when the defendant driver made an unsafe left turn in ... front of our client riding his 2006 Suzuki motorcycle. The defendant attempted to make her left turn on a yellow light and failed to yield the right of way to our client who was traveling straight. Our client was thrown over the vehicle and hit the pavement. Initially, the defendant disputed liability, claiming our client ran the red light, but we persuaded her insurance company to accept responsibility for the accident. Our client sustained a left knee dislocation including tears to his ACL, PCL, medial meniscus and lateral meniscus requiring two knee surgeries with hardware installed. He also sustained a fractured left elbow requiring two surgeries with hardware installed. There was approximately $118,000 in past medical expenses with Kaiser Permanente. We significantly reduced the reimbursement of medical bills so that more of the settlement funds could go to our client.

Car accident

Rose vs. City of Los Angeles

Nov 15, 2009

OUTCOME: $2,300,000

Our client was a 31 year old Los Angeles County Police Officer who was injured while riding his motorcycle on the way into work, sustaining a torn right ACL, low back disc and nerve injury. The client ... was unable to return to work as a police officer but could work in a sedentary desk job. $2,300,000 was obtained for this client.

Trucking accident

John Doe vs. Roe Bus Company (Confidential)

Jan 23, 2009

OUTCOME: $2,782,954

Our client was a 46 year old construction worker who was a passenger on a bus, injured in a rollover accident, sustaining a fractured neck. The client made a good medical recovery after neck surgery bu ... t was disabled from work. $2,782,954 was obtained for this client.

Car accident

Smith vs. Kolinsky

Sep 22, 2006

OUTCOME: $1,000,000

Our 42 year old previously disabled attorney sustained exacerbation of preexisting neck and low back injuries (caused by a previous accident for which we represented this same client) as a result of a ... low speed low impact rear end automobile collision. Defendants attempted to demonstrate that this new accident did absolutely nothing to change our client’s medical condition but we were able to defeat this argument and recovered the defendants’ full insurance policy for our client.

Wrongful death

John Doe vs. Roe Car Driver (Confidential

Jul 28, 2006

OUTCOME: $850,000

Our clients were the parents of an eight year old boy who was killed when he ran across a four lane highway and was struck by defendant who was speeding and distracted with his own child who was seated ... in the car with him. Defendant claimed that there was a phantom vehicle that had initially struck the decedent when he first entered the street and that defendant was not responsible for the death of the decedent.

Slip and fall accident

Zhuk vs. Academy Just for Kids

Dec 05, 2004

OUTCOME: $850,000

A 35 year old housewife slipped and fell on a rug at her daughter's pre school resulting in multiple fractures to her right shoulder and three shoulder surgeries.

Car accident

Cooper vs. Friedman

Oct 22, 2002

OUTCOME: $1,250,000

Head on car collision on a two lane windy road with no eyewitnesses. Our client could not remember who crossed the double yellow line. Our client sustained multiple right ankle fractures requiring two ... surgeries and multiple left shoulder fractures, with future ankle and shoulder surgeries recommended. We retained an accident reconstruction expert who determined the collision occurred on our client's side of the roadway, proving the Defendant crossed the double yellow line.

Trucking accident

Neff vs. Singh

May 14, 2002

OUTCOME: $1,000,000

Off duty school bus driver in a Suzuki Samurai crashed into the underside of a big rig that had overturned and come to rest blocking the highway on a moonless night. Our client was not wearing her sea ... tbelt and was ejected through the front windshield sustaining multiple facial lacerations requiring plastic surgery, corneal laceration to her right eye requiring surgery, right knee fracture, and a left shoulder rotator cuff tear. This settlement was a full insurance policy limits settlement.

Personal injury

Mark vs. James Productions, Inc.

Feb 07, 2002

OUTCOME: $1,000,000

Our client was a 42 year old real estate investor who was injured in front of his wife and child while riding on a Ferris-wheel at a school Halloween festival sustained a fractured skull, mild traumati ... c brain injury, left shoulder fracture and neck injuries. This was a policy limits settlement.

Slip and fall accident

Bulosan vs. Kaufman

Nov 05, 2001

OUTCOME: $3,407,752

We obtained a structured settlement payout over lifetime for head injury to an I I year old boy who tripped and fell while walking backwards into a pothole while playing his Game-boy at his apartment b ... uilding. No one saw the fall and the child could not testify that he in fact fell in the pothole. The apartment complex had been cited previously by the Department of Building and Safety for substandard conditions including the very pothole that we alleged caused the fall. Our client sustained a subdural hematoma requiring emergency surgery and mild traumatic brain injury resulting in some cognitive deficits, memory problems and learning disabilities.

Scott J. Corwin's Legal Cases (10)

Dulac v. Odgers

Rose vs. City of Los Angeles

John Doe vs. Roe Bus Company (Confidential)

Smith vs. Kolinsky

John Doe vs. Roe Car Driver (Confidential

Zhuk vs. Academy Just for Kids

Cooper vs. Friedman

Neff vs. Singh

Mark vs. James Productions, Inc.

Bulosan vs. Kaufman